School: Meelick (B.)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0597, Page 473
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- (continued from previous page)early to have some work done the following day. The forgot to wind the clock that night After being in bed for some time they got up and went to do the work. They were working for a time when a small man with a swallow-tailed coat came into the forge, looked at them and walked out again. So one said to the other that is a dead man, we will go to bed again. They had not been long in bed when they heard the bellows blowing and the anvil ring which happens in every forge at midnight.
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- Collector
- James J. O Rourke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockalisheen, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Thomas Boland
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Knockalisheen, Co. Clare
