School: Tankerstown (roll number 15304)
- Location:
- Tankerstown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Thom. F. Meagher
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- The Ghost Train of Cappagh
Some years after the railway here was built, a train which was driven by a driver who was Nick named "Hell Fire Jack" was travelling from Tipperary to Cahir Station ran off the line at the Bansha side of Cappagh Red Bridge.
The driver and several others were killed while the fireman who jumped off was saved.
Some years later farmers who lived near the scene of the accident saw several times at the middle of the night a train of light coming down the line and at the Red Bridge it rose like a ball of fire into the air and vanished.
- Collector
- Joe Dalton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymorris, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr James Dalton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymorris, Co. Tipperary
