School: Ballyheaffy (B.), Baile Dubh (roll number 10387)
- Location:
- Ballyeafy, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0634, Page 29
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“There was a man named Thomas Keenan. Every night people came to his house scoraidheacht.”
(continued from previous page)heard the dragging of chains. Mick leaped in over the ditch. He saw three men and they were carrying a coffin. "Come out, Mick" said one of them "and help us to carry the coffin".
Mick came out and he thought that the weight of the world was in himself. They came to a graveyard. The three men went off to get shovels to dig a grave. While they were gone Mick opened the lid of the coffin. Who did he see but Old Nick."Go home now Mick" says Nick to him.
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“Thre was a young fellow long ago and he was driving a pair of goats along the road.”
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- James Brunnock
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Doon, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Michael Brunnock
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Doon, Co. Tipperary