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School: Swords (B.) (roll number 755)

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Swords, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
A. Hamill
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    The road that my house is on is called the Hearse Road and is supposed to be haunted by a coach and four headless horses and by the man that it was bringing to be buried in the graveyard at Ballymadrough. One very dark night a man was driving cattle to the market. When he came to the Hearse Road he saw a white thing with two big green eyes coming along the side of the road. He thought it was the ghost of the dead man the Hearse was bringing to the graveyard. Some of the cattle ran away and when he got them back the thing was still there. He threw his stick at it and hit it then he ran after it and caught and discovered it was a white dog.
    Told by:-Thomas Dooley Senior. Ballymadrough Donabate.
    (A46).
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Dooley
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballymadrough, Co. Dublin
    Informant
    Thomas Dooley
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    46
    Address
    Ballymadrough, Co. Dublin