School: Maigh Locha (B.) (roll number 13851)
- Location:
- Moylough, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Braonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0170, Page 0017
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- Long ago there were only a few carts in every townland.
When a person died the people had to carry the corpse across fields to some place where there was a cart or a car.
Sometimes they had to rest in a field.
They called the spot of ground where the corpse was left a Foidín Mairbh.
If a person stood on that spot in the night he was suddenly put astray.
One night a young man left his house to go to the road.
In crossing a field he passed over one, and all at once he was half a mile away.
He tried to go to some light which was near him.
But when he got near it he found there was a hedge before him.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas P. Brett
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Pádhraic Ó Braonáin
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
