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School: Finternagh

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Finternagh, Co. Cavan
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C. Ní Bhuachalla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1004, Page 328

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    cross and turns on next to Killinkere
    rectory and it stops there.
    The old people used to say that the the horses that were in it had no heads and the driver had no head either. But you would not see anything. All you would find is chains rattling the noise of horses hoofs and a flash of wind.
    The old people used to say that if you happened to meet it on the road at twelve o'clock, the wind from it would blow you across the ditch.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Terence Gray
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Fartadreen, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Patrick Shiels
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Fartadreen, Co. Cavan