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School: Ballinacree (C.) (roll number 13966)

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Ballynacree, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Eibhlín Bean Uí Chonnachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0717, Page 365

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    That old house there near the churchyard avenue was a kidnappers house. There were a crowd there - the Cumaskeys. They were herds as well. They used to rob the graveyard. If any young person died of decline or the like they came at night and took the body out of the coffin and sent it to Dublin for the young doctors to look over it.
    They used to put the body in a barrel sack and send it on the cars to Dublin.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Íde Ní Gabann
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Joe Clarke
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Ballynacree, Co. Meath