School: Bun Machan
- Teacher: Íde, Bean Uí Chobhthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)difficulty the man succeeded in bringing the coffins to the graveyard and burying them there. His people at home - his wife and his mother did not know where he was gone so he had to work very quickly. He finished his work at 5 o'clock in the morning. He was home at half-past five. Then he noticed that he had no tie. There was a chest of drawers in the kitchen. The first one he opened made him gasp in astonishment. For in it was two thousand guineas. This enabled him to buy a farm so he lived a rich and happy man to the end of his life. There was never an apparition seen at the old ruined castle from that night out.
- There once lived a very brave man who stayed out very late at night for several nights in succession. On this certain night he happened to be coming home from a visit to a relative who lived some miles away. As luck would have(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick O' Donovan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynarrid, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Mrs Donovan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 40
- Occupation
- Plasterer's wife
- Address
- Ballynarrid, Co. Waterford