School: Naomh Angela, Caisleán an Bharraigh (roll number 14410)
- Location:
- Castlebar, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Muireadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0089, Page 425
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - About ten years ago a man and his wife were going home from town in their cart. Both of them were drunk but it happened that the man was the worse, and he fell out of the cart and got caught in the reins. He was dragged along by the horse which was running.
The horse stopped outside a house in Ballyhane, and the man was taken in but the people. He died a few hours later.
A few years afterward four boys were on that same road, and they saw a white horse in a field. They said they would go for a ride on him. He ran a round the(continues on next page)
