School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137F, Page 13_004
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- (continued from previous page)tea and the ghost said he would. The man gave him a cup of tea, when he had enough of tea drunk he let the cup and saucer fall and broke it in a hundred bits. The man asked him did he want fight and the said he did. The two of them started to fight. With the first rattle the man gave to the ghost he tumbled him in the ashes and with the second rattle the man gave to the ghost he tumbled him head-long on the floor. Then the ghost said that the man had him beaten. And the ghost said that he would never trouble him again. He told him to raise up a certain flag and that there was a crock of gold under it. The man did so(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Reid
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knappagh Beg, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Walter Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knappagh Beg, Co. Mayo
