School: Cill Ruadháin (roll number 7088)
- Location:
- Lisgarode, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Labhrás Ó Floinn
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- In the parish of Kilruane there is a churchyard known as the Kilruane Churchyard. There many things in the form (seen) of ghosts seen there and here is a story about a man who saw one of them.
One night a man was coming home from rambling. It was a dark night and he could not see anything. When he came to the churchyard a strange feeling came over him and he was hardly able to walk. He came along all right till he came to the stile. Just as he was passing the stile a big black dog came out to him. The dog had his tongue hanging out and when the man looked at him a ball of fire fell out of its mouth
The man was frightened but he kept(continues on next page)