School: Cill Moicheallóg (B.) (roll number 15740)
- Location:
- Kilmallock, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Conchobhar Mac Raghnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0528, Page 391
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- (continued from previous page)The Headless CoachThe Headless Coach is a sort of a topic of a story that is talked of in the country inns. But it is not entirely a fairy tale.When a person sees the Headless Coach they are supposed to die soon afterwards.I went up for a holiday in Kinvara, and I went down to the small quay where the turf boats used come in to unload and load. I saw a hearse coming up the street and a crowd of mourners behind it "Who is dead" I said to one of the Irish fishermen "Ní thuigeann tú" he said and then he started to fire a flow of Irish questions at me with such speed that I could not understand head nor tail of what he said. When I did not answer him he answered them himself so I took my leave. I went to a group of boys and men who were standing outside a shop. I asked them "Who is dead" and they told me that a man who said that he had seen the Headless Coach a week ago. A girl in the Convent nearby said that she had heard a great rattling of chains on the night that the man had peofessed to have seen the Headless Coach as if horses were(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maurice Power
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Kilmallock, Co. Limerick
