School: Dunleer (C.) (roll number 1496)
- Location:
- Dún Léire, Co. Lú
- Teacher: M. Ní Chathasaigh
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- (continued from previous page)at home about his experience, and they said he was not the first that saw him.He went the next day and told the priest, and he said that he must go when he promised, but he told him to get a bucket of holy water and a little brush, and to make a large round hole in the field, and to stand in the middle of it, and when the ghost would appear to keep splashing the holy water.However, he went the next night, and had everything ready as he was directed.At twelve o'clock the ghost and the horse came again, and the man started sprinkling the holy water, so then the ghost could not come upon the(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Vincent King
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dún Léire, Co. Lú
