School: Dunleer (C.) (roll number 1496)
- Location:
- Dunleer, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Chathasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0674, Page 014
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- (continued from previous page)said " Whose turn next" and the rest of them answered, "Peter Flynn's
As they passed him, the coffin touched a big briar that was growing out of the hedge. Peter was very much frightened and thought the very best thing to do, was to make the Sign of the Cross. When he did so the ghost funeral vanished and never appeared to him or anyone else since.
The briar that scratched against the coffin withered in some time, and blackberries never grew on it afterwards.
- Informant
- Mr James Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Clonmore, Co. Louth
