School: An Léim Gearr (roll number 8766)
- Location:
- Lemgare, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Duffy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0936, Page 370
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- 1. There is an old grave-yard in Philip Hughe's farm in Drumherney Co. Armagh. Some old headstones are still in it. A light is seen in it very often at night.
- 2. There is a mound in Mick Murray's land in Crossbane. A chieftain is supposed to be buried there. In Winter there is grass on it as long and as green as in Summer.
- Collector
- John Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lemgare, Co. Monaghan
- 3. There is an old Grave-yard in Michael Brennan's farm in Lemgare. The shapes of the graves can be distinctly seen. People say that a hearse drawn by headless horses and driven by a headless coach-man goes to it sometimes in the middle of the night. If any one sees or hears it they will die inside a year.
- 4. There is a grave-yard in one of Paddy Barker's fields in Pullins.
- 5. There is an old grave-yard and ruins of a Catholic Church near to St Machua's well in Derrynoose. They are in the land of a Protestant named Herby Taite
