School: Cill an Daingin
- Location:
- Killadangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0533, Page 375
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- (continued from previous page)that if you went up to the castle at twelve on November night, you would see three ghosts running up and down the stairs, hand in hand with a sword by each of their sides. They would disappear after five minutes.
It is said that when the Normans were routed out of the castle, a poor man and his son went to live in it. This son took sick. One morning he was very ill, but still his father went out to work. When he returned at night his son was dead. The man was so heart-broken after him that he laid down by his side and died. This was on Christmas eve. If a person went up to the castle on a Xmas eve you would see a man and a boy lying on the ground floor. The man is seeing crying and his son is by his side dead. Some of the old people say that the castle will fall on the nicest girl that passes by it.
On account of all those tales about the castle it is a very interesting building.
- Informant
- Nellie D' Arcy
- Gender
- Female
