School: Drumcoghill
- Location:
- Drumcoghill Lower, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Iomaire
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0982, Page 341
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Drumcoghill
- XML Page 341
- XML “Story - Trinity Abbey”
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
- Story - Trinity Abbey
Around 50 years ago a man named Jerry Leddy, lived in Gartenardress in a house now occupied by Bob Merdy; he died, The funeral went to the Abbey
On the day of his funeral, the water was low and the coffin had to be carried some distance, instead of being brought in the cot. The mourness had to land at the mouth of the Cass's Lake, water was too low to float the cot any nearer.
They had just made a stand when a Summer Crescent burst upon them. They had to leave down the coffin and run for shelter, to a hedge.
In the course of four minutes, a squealing and pattering caused them to look sharply around them. They were horrified to see the lid of the coffin dragged open. And it surrounded by a batch of pigs, who had the sheet which covered the corpse tore into ribbons.
Th body itself would have been devoured, had the men not run for their life, to prevent it.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mrs A. Montgomery
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Corr, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr Brewster
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killashandra, Co. Cavan
