School: Clochar na Trócaire, An Uaimh (roll number 16100)
- Location:
- Navan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: An tSr. Concepta le Muire
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- (continued from previous page)them but set out with them to see was it true. As they approached the cemetery neither of the girls could see anything, but, all at once the old woman fell at their feet and they soon found out she was dead. The spirit was the man she was about to marry, but who met with an accident and was killed when they were both very young.
- About a mile from Navan, Co. Meath, there is a small graveyard called Churchtown. It is a very old churchyard and there are old ruins to be seen it it. The people living nearby tell a number of stories connected with this place. Travellers by night are always afraid passing this graveyard as it is said that weird cries have often been heard coming from it.
One night a man who was returning from the fair in Navan passed this way and he noticed that he heard a footstep following him(continues on next page)- Collector
- Nancy Blake
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Commons, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mr C. Blake
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Commons, Co. Meath