Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Location
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0191
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- (continued from previous page)All they could do was to make a grave outside the wall and leave the poor fellow there to await the final trumpet. I wouldn't say that Ned of the Hill had any hand, act or part in removing the body from consecrated ground"
[Some 3 years a body was dug up just outside the wall of Upperchurch graveyard. Any connection? Who knows. The jokers at the time declared that it was the body of the missing postman from Stradbally" -Report Dublin Press] - In townland of Curaheen (O.Survey Map 45) clearly marked on the green north(?) is "the grave of Ned of the Hill. Lone sgeach at head; smaller bush at foot. A least a foot above remainder of field I took a photo of it 5 or 6 years ago.
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