Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1938
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0485, Page 0179
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“In far back times there was an ould abbey...”
(continued from previous page)surprished ta see a cart comin' along, wit a coffin on it, an' a white horshe dhrawin it.
Four men was all o' a funeral that there was, the horshe-cart halted outside the graveyard gate, an' the four men tuk the coffin off the cart, got it on their shouldhers, an' walked over to the spot, where all the dead woman's people, war buried.
The minnit they reaced it, they war seen no more an' when the men who war lookin' on, looked towards the gate, ta see if the horshe cart was there, it too had vanished. They waited for a while ta see if they'd re-appear, but they never did, so it seems the woman got her dyin' wish, for she was buried in Kiladoon, in spite o' fot ever oppostition there was agin buryin her there
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