School: Baile Aodha (C.). Inis (roll number 13419)
- Location:
- Ballyea, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Dhuibhgeanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0607, Page 229
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- In Buncraggy about three miles from Ennis, there is a [?]"boirin" going up to an old residence called Barntick House. Many strange things are supposed to have been see and heard in this Boreen. About midnight a woman wrapped in a shawl is to be seen coming up the Boreen, talking to herself but she has always disappeared at the whitethorn bush which grows in a field belonging to Lyons. The apparition has often been seen. On one occasion it had a lamp in its hand. A lamp similar to it was found by a herdsman named Roughan near a house lived in by Larkin's. Roughan left it beside the whitethorn-bush and when he next visited the place the lamp had disappeared - where it is not known.
Where the apparition dissappears a carriage drawn by horses, is heard galloping fast; always heard but never seen. Both of these things happen at midnight regularly. The carriage goes by the name of the "The Dead Coach." or the "[?]Coisre Dobar". It is supposed to be drawn by two headless horses and to protend trouble to somebody in the neighbourhood.
- Collector
- Norah Casey
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- James Casey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killerk East, Co. Clare
