School: Carrigaline (B.) (roll number 13512)
- Location:
- Carraig Uí Leighin, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: John Wrin
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- About one hundred years ago a man was coming home from Cork. He had a horse and cart. It was about twelve o'clock on a Winter's night.
At Hilltown Cross a foxy-haired woman asked him for a drive to the village. The man gave her a drive to the village. At the Church gate a man clothed in priest's clothes stopped him. At that moment the foxy-haired woman vanished, The man in the priest's clothes told the man that if he had gone any further with the woman she would have cut his throat.
The priest told the man that he had been buried in the Church a few years before that. He said that his coffin was floating in water. He told the man to tell the Parish Priest about the affair. The man said that the Parish Priest would not believe him. The priest told him that the Parish Priest would believe him.
The man went to the Parish Priest next morning and told him the story. The grave was opened that day. The coffin was found floating in water. The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peter Collins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carraig Uí Leighin, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Miss O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Carraig Uí Leighin, Co. Chorcaí
