School: St. Mary's (B.), Droichead Átha (roll number 15125)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: A. Mac Uidhlinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0680, Page 503
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“This really happened.”
This really happened. When I was young I was living in Monasterboice and I used to go to Monasterboice school.
I often heard people talking about a Ghost coach. People called it the Dead Coach. They said that at the Red Gap Hill the coach would suddenly appear. It would be black all over and there would be nothing pulling it but you would hear the trampling of the horses. The coach would go terrible quietly along the Monasterboice road.
When it would reach the graveyard it would go through the gates and then it would disappear.
I would not believe this when I heard it.
At that time there was a big debt on the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brendan Mc Quillan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Old Hill, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mrs Fitzpatrick
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sampson's Lane, Co. Louth