School: Cloncarneel
- Location:
- Cloncarneel, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Bhreacáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0695, Page 278
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- (continued from previous page)told him the state he was in. The priest gave him a big bottle of holy water. He told the boy to be there at a quarter to twelve. The priest told the boy not to leave a spot where the ghost was but to sprinkle it with the water. When the ghost would came he would have no power. The boy did as the priest had told him.
When the ghost came he got into the ring and he could not get out of it. He had to stay there until the cock crew in the morning. The ghost said to the servant "I am dammed to hell all by you, it was my punishment not to speak to anyone." Then the ghost disappeared.
- Collector
- Janie Dunne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corballis, Co. Meath
