School: Mell, Mell N. School, Drogheda (roll number 855)
- Location:
- Mell, Co. Louth
- Teacher: E. Ní Cholmáin
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“A boy was coming home late from a house one night...”
A boy was coming home late from a house one night where he had been playing cards and he saw four men bringing a coffin between them on the road. He went to help them and they disappeared and left him the coffin. He had to bring it home and his mother was frightened. When they opened the coffin they found a beautiful young woman inside and she was sound asleep. When she woke up she could not speak The next night he met a man at the same place and he told him to take something from the back of her head and she would talk. The boy married her and she lived very happily with him and his mother.
- Collector
- Eibhlís Ní Cholmáin
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Mell, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Paddy Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Mell, Co. Louth