School: Adamstown (roll number 3755)
- Location:
- Adamstown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Donnchadh Cuirtéis
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0899, Page 320
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
Download
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Adamstown
- XML Page 320
- XML (no title)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
(no title)
“An ould fella lived in Taghmon by the name of Jim Keegan the blacksmith.”
He was in the habit of being of out late playing cards every night.
On his way home he had to go along, the boolcull road where a dead coach was suppose to be seen.
This night it was about one o'clock in the mornin when he was going home.
He was going home under the big beach trees one night when he heard horses trottin behind him.
He knew it was a horse and he said to himself that it was the coach.
When it came near him he was afraid, and he was in the gripe.
He was going to get across the ditch when the man said "Will you give me a match?"
He gave him the match, and then the driver told him that he was at a funeral in Ross, and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Micheal Martin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathkyle, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Thomas Banville
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Rathkyle, Co. Wexford