School: Dún Drongáin (B.) (roll number 7231)
- Location:
- Drangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teachers: Diarmuid Ó Gormáin Labhrás Ó Gormáín
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- (continued from previous page)corpse by burning.
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- Informant
- D. Mac Garry
- Gender
- Unknown
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Drangan, Co. Tipperary
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“Maggie Drew told me that one night a man was playing cards in a house in Lismoyna with a lot of other men.”
Maggie Drew told me that one night a man was playing cards in a house in Lismoyna with a lot of other men. All the rest of the men went home early and this man did not and when he was passing Bradshaw's cross he saw a woman all in white. She threw a ball of fire across the road. The man stood and took out his beads and walked past her and she threw three more balls of fire. Then she let a terrible schreech and disappeared. The man ran(continues on next page)
