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School: Oulart (roll number 15419)

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Oulart, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Séamus Ó hAilleacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0886, Page 424

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    A man went to steal a dead body out of a grave in Meelnagh graveyard (Meelnagh, Oulart, Gorey)
    Doctors could not find out what the cause of death. In that time a doctor would give in or about five pounds for a dead body.
    The man that went to steal the corpse did not know who to carry the body. He put a rope round the dead man's neck and tied the other end to his own neck and as he was getting over a stile he slipped and the dead man fell at one side of the stile and the man that went to steal him at the other. The weight of the dead man's body tied to the neck of the other choked him.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    2. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
          1. graveyards (~2,501)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    William Doyle
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Garra, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    Edward Mythen
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballytarsna, Co. Wexford