School: Scoil na mBráthar, Dún ar Aill (roll number 16682)
- Location:
- Doneraile, Co. Cork
- Teacher: P.E. Mac an Airchinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0374, Page 123
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“Once there was a farmer going from Doneraile to Mallow fair and when he was about half ways he saw four headless horses and they drawing a coach with two hounds following it.”
Once there was a farmer going from Doneraile to Mallow fair and when he was about half ways he saw four headless horses and they drawing a coach with two hounds following it.
Long ago about the time when the most of the Irish were pagans there were three of them buried near Buttervant.
One night four men went to see what was inside the grave, so they came and lifted up the tomb and went in.
When they were inside the tomb fell on the grave and they were not able to come out.
They roared for help and immediately three pagans appeared before them and the grave was lit up with all classes of lights.
A farmer who was living near the grave heard them and he went to it. He knelt down and prayed and immediately the tomb opened and the men came out.
- Informant
- Master Joseph Hunter
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 26
- Address
- Doneraile, Co. Cork
- When Henry VIII acutely concerned that many of his Anglo-Irish subjects of the Pale "were lately seduced and strained into rebellion against him by the deceitful instigation of Thomas Fitzgerald and his complices" looked round for some "right trusty(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr Martin O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Doneraile, Co. Cork