School: Sallybank
- Location:
- Drumsillagh or Sallybank (Merritt), Co. Clare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0585, Page 204
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- Years ago there was a girl churning and as she was doing so she got sick and she ran in to her mother and when she went in she fell on the floor and she said to her mother that she was going to die and that could be brought back if they made the sign of the cross on the top of the coffin with two black handled forks and two handled knives and when it would come to four cross roads to pick out the strongest men to take the coffin across the road.
So this was carried out until they came to the cross road. The four strongest men were picked out and when they laid the coffin on their shoulders there was great weight on it and as they crossed, the air over head them was black with crows and all of them were screaming. But as(continues on next page)
- Informant
- John Walsh
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Drumsillagh or Sallybank (Merritt), Co. Clare
