School: Alt an Chuilinn
- Location:
- Altachullion, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Brigid Martin
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- (continued from previous page)towards the house. Returning to the kitchen after putting in the horse he found there was no one at all there except the woman who was housekeeping. He told her of the many people he had met and she said she had opened the door several times as she heard knocking at the door. Next morning Mrs. McBrien died.
(This story was told by John Fee himself (dead about 5 years) and he said it happened about 20 years agoThe same Joe McBrien and John Fee cut bushes on a fort beside the house in 1925 during a wet summer. That night Joe awoke about midnight and saw a wonderful light in the kitchen. When he went to the kitchen he saw all the sticks alight like candles. HE gathered up the sticks and left them outside and next day returned them to the fort.
