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School: Castlebridge (C.) (roll number 16382)

Location:
Castlebridge, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Mrs E. Shortall
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0884, Page 126

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    digging inside and when the body snatchers who were in the graveyard taking the corpse came out and put it in the car and went back for their tools one of the two men got in under the sheet in the car with the corpse and when the two body "snatchers" jumped up on the car he said " dont be squeezing me" and the two men jumped off and left the car and all behind them and the man who was in the car and the one who was behind the ditch kept the car and no one ever came to look for it because they were afraid they would be found out.
    And those men who got the horse and car that night kept it
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Morris
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Thomas Ryan
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    63
    Address
    Ballytramon, Co. Wexford