School: Dungourney (roll number 3501)
- Location:
- Dungourney, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Rignigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0387, Page 337
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- (continued from previous page)him. There was one thing he hated, and that was to give anybody a night's shelter in the castle, and he often boasted that if he saw a poor man drying with the cold he wouldn't leave him in. Now in olden times there was a belief that a ghost roamed around at night called Jackie the Lantern, and that anybody he ever gave a message to should comply with his wish or he wouldn't live long. There was a poor man who wanted a week's lodging, and he asked several locals, who would gladly take him in if they had accommodation. They sent him to the castle and he was refused, so he thought of a plan. He got in touch with some of the servants who left a back window int he castle partly open. He returned again later in the night with a lantern and knocked at the hall door of the castle. The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Geaney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Informant
- Mrs Michael Mulcahy
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
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- Mrs Geaney
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
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