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 Collectanea.

'Twas Haunted.

As I said, this occurred to me gran'uncle at the mother's side. Him and me gran'father were goin' to a fair, for fear of teUin' a like [lie], I think 'twas to Limerick. Of coorse there was no trains at that time, an' they started, about tin o'clock, I suppose they got a drop on the road, but anyhow, whin they came as far as Stonehall comin' home that night, they heard grate [great] noise in front of um. " Stop," says me gran'father, " there must be a crowd of tinkers." " Yerra, come on," says the other, " what can they do to us .-^ " So on they wint, and they could see the people before them, an' hear the talking, but no sound of feet, and there were men and women, crowds of um. " Blasht them ! " says me gran'uncle, " they have no brogues on um. Come on and pass um ! " They came near enuff [enough] to touch um, but try as hard as they could, they couldn't pass um. My gran'uncle sez, " Get your stick ready." But just as he said it he was surrounded. Well, as he tould us after, he could feel no hands on him, nor anything, but could not get away. Me gran'father came home early in the mornin', but had no account of me gran'uncle. But after a week, one night in walks im, and you'd think he was dead for a year. He was kep as [kept in] a fort, as he tould us, and had to work hard for the week. He could see nothing to keep him from coming out, but there was somethin' alway aginst him, when he would come to the edge of the fort. He was never the same man after, God rest his soul ! As he often said, if they passed without sayin' any thin', they were all right. — Told by Mr. Ashe, near Ballyhahill.

The UnfimsJied Chapel, Clonkeen.

I'm goin' to tell you 'tis there to be seen to the present day, a churchyard called Clonkeen, in Abington, Co. Limerick. There was a friary, and all the friars were hunted out of it in the Cromwellian times. They going left their blessing to Abington. In the graveyard, there is a structure of stone in the form of a chapel. In one night it appeared, and a woman who was going to Limerick, in the early hours of the morning, see the