School: Aughacashel (roll number 15356)
- Location:
- Aghacashel, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Joseph Conifry
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0211, Page 440
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lot from the noise they were making. At last when they drew near he jumped up on the ditch to let them pass. As he did so he saw a troop of horse soldiers passing him at the same furious rate. He even saw their helmets. There were no soldiers around here at that time, nor even in any part of Leitrim, particularly cavalry).They might have been the ghosts of the priest hunters, or the ghosts of the soldiers the priest hunters sent out after the priest.Lately, I heard one of the tinker Heaneys who was camped on that road heard a terrible galloping of horses, and he thought they would trample down his little tent. There are not a half-dozen horses in the whole of the Moher district to-day, and certainly when Conifry heard the noise there were not more that four in it then.
- Collector
- Joseph Conifry
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Informant
- Thomas Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bunrevagh, Co. Leitrim
