School: Barrow (roll number 11850)
- Location:
- Barrow, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Ml. Ó hUallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0438, Page 159
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- (continued from previous page)breakfast and went away. When the woman of the house got up she found the tinkers gone and the goose and the hens gone also.
- About twenty years ago a man by the name of James OConnell was at one of the houses in Conocán. It was about one oclock in the night, and as he was coming down the road from Conocán, he heard all the noise coming towards him. After a while he saw a big coach coming towards him. He saw two men up on top of the coach and they had no heads. They had two whips and they were striking the horses. The horses had no heads also. They were two black horses. There were four wheels under the coach, two wheels(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nioclás Ó Connaill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Barrow, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- U. Ó Connaill
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Barrow, Co. Kerry
