Volume: CBÉ 0190

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1. Dead Coach

   

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   There were two fellows coming home one night from Taghmon. They lived somewhere in Shawstown about two miles from Taghmon. They stopped to talk at the end of a lane and there was an avenue opposite. The heard noise of horses coming near them and they waited until they came up, and then they saw a grand coach. There were two grand black horses drawing it, with lovely harness on them and it all brass and the horses hooves were shining and a bell hanging from each of their collars. The coach also was shining. There were brass bands all around it, and the wheels were decorated beautifully. There were two men up in the drivers seat and they were talking and laughing. There was a light inside in the coach and the

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   History Edit

   Date

   9 April 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Mrs Carthy