School: Creagach
- Location:
- Craggagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán T. Ruane
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0118, Page 62
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- Before lorries and vans came in use men with horses and carts used to draw loads of stuff from ships to shopkeepers inland. Those men were called carters. One of these carters while on his journey home decided to stay at the next inn he came to. Those inns were throughout the country for travellers to sleep in for a night or two
When he came to the inn it was one he never stayed at before, he brought his horse into the yard where he was welcomed by the owner of the inn. His horse was put up for the night and he himself was made comfortable. At bed-time when he went to the bed-room he was much surprised to find a dog that he once owned but that had left him. When the carter attempted to get into bed the dog would not let him
The carter became suspicious and when [?] a weight on the bed it sunk. He managed to convey a message to the police who arrived arrived and arrested the owner of the inn. The guards discovered that the bed was on a trap-door that opened into a deep-pit. There were several human bodies in the pit.
- Collector
- Teresa Sheridan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Domnick Sheridan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 93
