School: Park (roll number 9717)
- Location:
- Kilclammon, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Elizabeth Hogan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0898, Page 056
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- Once upon a time two body snatchers took a body out of a local graveyard. They took up the coffin and dressing the body in ordinary clothes they placed him in their car.
They left the body in the car and returned to fill in the grave.
In the meantime a man coming along the road saw the what the other men had done.
He took the body out of the car and dressing himself in some of the clothes as the men had had put on the body.
He then hid the body in the ditch and seated himself in the car. When the men had finished their work they returned to the car and commenced their journey. They placed as they thought the body in the center.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Brady
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballylane East, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Jim Cooney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mylerspark, Co. Wexford
