School: Anglesboro (B.), Baile Mhistéala (roll number 10262)
- Location:
- Anglesborough, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Cadhla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0513, Page 175
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“One night I slept in a haunted room in the town of Clonmel.”
(continued from previous page)had a bottle of stout and a pint while I was having my drink I heard the woman of the house whisper to the servant girl to put me in such a room. When I had finished my drink the woman of the house showed me up to my room. It was a small room with one bed and the window looking out on the street. I was rather tired and very soon I was under the clothes with my heavy revolver under the pillow. Soon I fell asleep but I must not have been very long so when I woke up with a cold sweat all over me and my heart bursting through my side. I felt there was someone or something in the room but I could neither hear nor see anything. I sat up in the bed and handled my revolver. After awhile I could(continues on next page)