School: Killadangan (roll number 4854)
- Location:
- Killadangan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Bean Uí Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138C, Page 04_010
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- A few nights ago, an old man told me a story. He said I knew a man who was going to a fair to Claremorris, and he was riding on a horse. When he came mear a bridge the horse began to get frightened. The man saw a coffin right beside the bridge, on matter how in devil he would beat the horse he would not pass bridge.
All of a sudden a woman dressed in white stood beside the coffin, and asked the man what brought himself and his horse this way. All the man did(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maud Gannon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Streamstown, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Austin Gannon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 86
- Address
- Deerpark East, Co. Mayo
