School: An Píce (The Pike, Shinrone)

Location:
Ballingarry, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Seán Ó Dúibheacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0532, Page 079

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  1. There was a wake at John Ryan's Quakerstown, There was a man there at the wake who bet five shillings that he would go up to qakerstown church yard and bring down a wreath and a skull. So the man bet that he would not. He went up and was out for a while. He went to a grave and got a wreath and he went an other grave and got a skull and came back to the house with the skull and wreath.
    So they gave him his his money.
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Christie Waters
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mick Waters
    Gender
    Male
  2. I am going to tell a story of a Ghost that was seen conventent at the far-famed Hill of Knockshegownia. At an iron gate quite near the
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