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School: Clochar na Trócaire, An Uaimh (roll number 16100)

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Navan, Co. Meath
Teacher:
An tSr. Concepta le Muire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0700, Page 024

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  3. XML “A Ghost Story”
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  1. A Ghost Story (continued)

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  2. The Churchtown Fable

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    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
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