School: Curravarahane, Ballineen (roll number 12253)
- Location:
- Curravarahane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: (name not given)
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Long ago when my father was about twelve years old, His grand-father was sent to the shop for messages. He went on horseback and it was about ten o'clock in the night. On his way he passed the creamery and just as he reached a dark spot in the road after that, coming towards him he saw an old man and woman in an old fashioned car. There seemed to be no horse under their car yet it was travelling slowly. The old man and woman were dressed in white and as my father passed the old woman called out in a ghastly shriek "Help me Garsún". There were dreadful grounds and creaking from the car. My father said nothing but passed on as quickly as ever he could. He was a young boy at that time but has never forgotten it. A woman was drowned in a river hole in this spot on the road many years before.John Shorten, 13 years old
Cashelbeag House
Co. CorkChualas and scale ón "d'athair"
- Collector
- John Shorten
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Cashel Beg, Co. Cork
