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School: Bullach

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Castlerea, Co. Roscommon
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Máire Ní Fhlannagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0244, Page 051

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    horses would not pull the hearse until the priest read an office. The priest then told the man on the hearse to come down from the horse as soon as he reached the gates of the graveyard. He did as directed and no sooner was he down than the ground opened and swallowed hearse and horses and coffin. It is believed ever since a red light is seen in the Abbey when one of the Davis family die and the dead coach is supposed to pass by the house every night about two or three o'clock.
    A short distance from my house is a field where an old graveyard was long ago. After some years unbaptised children used to be buried there The name of it was Cille Mogue. There are no such graveyards used now in my parish.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
          1. graveyards (~2,501)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Freda Higgins
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tully, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mrs Brigid Higgins
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    50
    Address
    Tully, Co. Roscommon