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School: Baile an Mhuilinn, An Droichead Nua (roll number 16654)

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Milltown, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
S.P. Ó Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 409

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    outside the gate until midnight. The driver was a man in black with no head. If anyone came along the road at midnight the coachman would put him in the coach and bring him to some unknown place and let him find his way back.
    I got this story from my father :-
    (Age 51 yrs) William Tiernan.
    Miltown
    Droichead Nua
    Co. Kildare
    Signed: Eamon Tiernan
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. A Christmas Story

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    It is said that on every Christmas Eve a big black dog with fiery eyes and chains hanging from his ears walks down from Mr Neale's old ruined house (which is about quarter of a mile away from my home) and a very tall person dressed in white leading him.
    If anyone passes that way after midnight the man lets go the lead and the dog pounces on him and tears him with his teeth.
    Also a coach with no horses drawing it and no man driving it goes making a terrible rumbling noise like thunder down an old avenue which is near Neaale's dwelling house and disappears over a wall at the end of the avenue.
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
        1. Christmas (~455)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Curran
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Punchersgrange, Co. Kildare
    Informant
    Thomas Curran
    Relation
    Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    56
    Address
    Punchersgrange, Co. Kildare