School: Gleannach (Glenough) (roll number 8224)
- Location:
- Glenough Lower, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Bean Uí Bhreasail
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“One night long ago there were two men going home from a neighbouring house in Kilcommon.”
(continued from previous page)274to sit down in the dike till morning. He did not go out for a week after that.
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“One night a man in Glenough was going home after playing cards in a neighbouring house.”
69One night a man in Glenough was going home after playing cards in a neighbouring house. When he came to a cross road, where he was to go in across the field a woman put her hand before him and told him go back. He was very frightened and went into the first house he met and did not go home till morning. (no title)
“There was a boy in America and he met with a man one day who was able to foretell things.”
70There was in a boy in America and he met with a man one day who was able to foretell things. He told the boy where there was gold hidden in Ireland. The boy came over to get the gold. He got a big box of gold buried in the ground. He was very thankful to the man and when he went back he gave some of the gold to him. And after that he was the richest man in America.