School: Naomh Peadar, Droichead Átha (roll number 11072)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: S. Mac Maoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0680, Page 121
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - A man used to stay out late at night, and his sister thought that she would frighten him to make him come in earlier. She got a sheet and put it round her like a shroud. Then she went to a gate that was supposed to be haunted & crouched down at it. She thought she heard something and looked round. She saw an immense bale of wool moving towards her. She screamed & tried to run but she fell. Somebody heard here & came & brought her home. He did not see anything. She had seen the real ghost.
- There is a story told here about a black dog without a head that is seen on the Gurtha Hill at night time. Some people say it turns into a man & jumps over the hedge. Others say it disappears.
- Old people here say that a very bright light brighter that a motor car light wanders through the fields and always finishes up in an old ruined castle. One man say it & thought it was a man he knew & he stopped his car & said something to "him", but there was only a light no man. Another man was coming up(continues on next page)
