School: Cill Cúlach
- Location:
- Kilcooly, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Lochlainn
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- Adjoining our farm stands the ruins of an old monument. To the naked eye it seems but an old pillar of stone; but could one penetrate its innermost recesses there stands a headless soldier killed in post-duty during the Knockbarrn races. The strangest thing about this old monument is that never a stone had been removed from it. Often I have climbed it finding it no-differance to any other game. One morning I was surprised to see my legs covered with black-marks, my Father told me they were "dead mans pinches" and that it is the usual treat for anybody who enter-fears with that monument. Just where the remains of the old road which used to pass near this old monument crosses the presant Newtowndaly road there stands a lone bush. Beneath this bush which is about two hundred yards west of my house a headless man is very often see, still as it were on post-duty. He has appeared so- often in our neighbourhood that he is now known as "Our Headless Neighbouur".
- Collector
- Kitty Flanagan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Flanagan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rafarn, Co. Galway
