School: Skerries (St. Patrick's : Boys) (roll number 16332)
- Location:
- Skerries, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: T. Mc Namee
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0785, Page 61
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Old Story
“Long ago there were a band of people called the "Body Snatchers".”
(61)Old Story
(Skerries, Co. Dublin.)Long ago there were a band of people called the "Body Snatchers". When these people heard of anyone after been buried they would go at night to the grave and dig the body up. Then they would bring the body to an hospital and sell it to the doctors to cut up and see what the person had died of. In this way doctors were trained. The people who used dig up the bodies had coaches called the "Dead Coaches" because they used to have the hooves of the horses and the wheels of the coaches padded so that they could not(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Hoey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathmooney, Co. Dublin