School: Bansha (B.) (roll number 11964)

Location:
Bansha, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Peter Horgan
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0575, Page 176

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0575, Page 176

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Bansha (B.)
  2. XML Page 176
  3. XML “An Old Story”
  4. XML “An Old Story”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. (continued from previous page)
    that he had to stop and listen to it for a time. In the end he went over to the ditch to see what was it and he discovered it to be the hound that had ran before him. After a time he went off into the air in the form of a ball of fire. As tradition says it was the Devil in the form of a hound endeavoring to delay the Priest so that the sould would die and go to him. When the Priest arrived at the sick man's room he was dead.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. One evening two men were drawing turf from the hillside. They were about ten miles from their own homes and it was getting dusk. They stopped by the wayside near a stream and gave their horses a drink. They had some food and they sat down to eat it. After a few minutes they noticed a lot of cars coming along the hillside. When they came near them they observed it to be a funeral with a Herse and a coffin in front. When
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John O' Dwyer
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloonfinglass, Co. Tipperary