School: Drumbaragh (roll number 10801)
- Location:
- Drumbaragh, Co. Meath
- Teachers: M. Brighid Bean Uí Draoighneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0703, Page 398
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- There is a place on the Rochfield Road about a mile outside Dells, called the Priest's Hollow. It is said that a priest was killed there. He fell off his horse. My grandmother, Mrs. Mulvany who is dead since 1928 told my sister that when she was young she is sure she saw the ghost of a priest on the road one night, while walking home to the down.She had gone out the road a little distance to leave a friend at her home and it was when returning alone that she met the priest. She saw him at the front gate of Rochfield House and he passed quite close to her with his head bent and he did not speak or look at her.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josephine Thornton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 10
- Informant
- John Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Springville or Dandlestown, Co. Meath
