School: Ballybay (B.) (roll number 1860)
- Location:
- Cornaseer, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Nualláin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0269, Page 050
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ballybay (B.)
- XML Page 050
- XML “A Ghost Story”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Once upon a time there were three men building a house, and it was a very wet day. The night was too wet for them to go home. So they said they would sleep in a house near by.
There was a man in the house, and he told them not to sleep in it, because there was a ghost in it. They said that they would that it was too wet to go home. So they lit a big fire and they slept in the one bed. At 12 o'clock they heard a great roar up stairs, but they did not go, and a big black horny man came down and stood beside the fire. Then he jumped into the bed and began pucking them with his horns and he then he went upstairs again. In the morning the man that was inside during the night began to pull the other men and he found out that they were dead.
