School: Grangemocler (C.) Carrick-on-Suir (roll number 7596)
- Location:
- Grangemockler, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mrs Brigid Feehan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0560, Page 063
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- (continued from previous page)going down against him on a horse and Eleth insulted the priest, and the priest said (may) to Eleth "may your horse break his neck before you reach home" the priest went off, and Eleth rode off home on his horse, but before he reached home, his horse fell and broke his neck. Eleth went into his house and he brought out his dogs to eat his horse but the dogs wouldn't eat the horse.Eleth afterwards died barking, and there were maggots creeping out of his mouth and ears before he died and the old people say that that was a sign of the badness. Fr Hally was found dead afterwards standing in a stream.
- Informant
- Patrick Tyrrell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Currasilla Lower, Co. Tipperary
