Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 1)

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1. Ghosts (continued)

   

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   To the gali but faith she wasnt there at all. I showed the loy where I led our her, but they only looked at me and laughed or if their merry hearts would break. They looked at me for a long time and there they went off with themselves I went in to the house and went I led and begor I couldn't sleep very well for to was terribly tormented about the whole affair. I knew in my heart that there surely must have been somebody there. Anyhow I went to sleep when it was coming near morning and at about nine oclock I wakened up and got up. I went off to my work and I was telling an old woman that lived in that house what I had seen on the night before. She listened to me for a long time, and then says she "An what could you asked and you came home from the who wake by yourself." I asked her

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   History Edit

   Date

   26 Nollaig 1937

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Gaelic script

   Informant

   • Seán Fortún