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1. Dead Coach (continued)

   

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   it is called in this part of the county. He went in through the rat and there he found his horse dead.

   There was another man lived in the Modebeg named Val Whitty and he lost a horse one time and he was looking for him for three or four weeks but could find no trace of him. He happened to be coming home accross the fields and he had to pass through the rath, and there he found his horse dead and he up in the top of a great big old "sceac".

   This old rath is very much "shunned" to this very day and there are plenty of people who never saw it, though they live within a quarter of a mile of it. Everyone is afraid of

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   History Edit

   Date

   9 April 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Mrs Carthy