School: Bullán (roll number 13432)
- Location:
- Bullaun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Muimhneacháin
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- The Dead HuntTraditional story told by Thomas Hardy age 67 of Raford, Co. Galway.Got by Liam Kelly, Cullaun, Loughrea on the 5th November 1937.One night about twenty years ago I was coming home from a dance in Bullaun.It was a fine bright night and you could nearly pick a pin off the road.When I was going down at Turoe I said I would take a short cut across through Thaulia. When I was passing Coolnacally I looked behind me and to my amazement didn't I see a big procession of hunts-men and horses.I counted up to about forty horses; grand horses some of them black and some of them white. The hunts-men had all red coats and white breeches. I could hear the dogs yapping and they were so near to me that I could almost leave my hand on them.They passed by and I watched every one of them passing in to fort. I didn't see them anymore but I heard that they came out of the fort for three nights after.
- Collector
- Liam Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bullaun, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Hardy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Raford, Co. Galway
