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 504
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(continued from previous page)Monasterboice Catholic Church and all the school-children would go every Autumn through the fields gathering blackberries and then they would sell them and then they would give the money to the Priest to pay the debt on the church.
The Priest would hold a ball about a week before Christmas for the school children every year.
One Christmas I and some other children were coming home from the Blackberry Ball, as we called it at about twelve o'clock in the night.
We were near the graveyard when we heard a sound like horses trotting behind us. We looked round and saw the dead coach coming towards us.
We were terrified and we jumped into the ditch. The coach went past us and went through the graveyard gates and disappeared.
- Collector
- Brendan Mc Quillan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Old Hill, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mrs Fitzpatrick
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sampson's Lane, Co. Louth