School: Kilduff
- Location:
- Kilduff Upper, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ó Floinn
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- (continued from previous page)It was a while after before they were out as late again, they got enough of that night.
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- Collector
- Michael Mc Gourty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dowra, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Joe Mc Gourty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dowra, Co. Cavan
- A woman named Margaret McGuire lived near Blacklion in a little rented house. She was living there for a long time, but she soon failed to pay the rent.
She was put out of the house, and a shoemaker bought it, but she told him that she would revenge dead or alive. The woman died later. One night when the shoemaker was mixing mortar on the floor, the woman came as a ghost, and hunted him, and would not let him finish his work.
The next day after the man got suddenly ill and went to hospital, where he died soon after.(continues on next page)
