School: Drumbaragh (roll number 10801)

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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.

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Location

   Drumbaragh, Co. Meath

   Collector

   Josephine Thornton

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   10

   Informant

   John Connor

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   68

   Address

   Springville or Dandlestown, Co. Meath