School: Baile na nGarraidhthe (roll number 13618)
- Location:
- Ballygarries, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: T. Ó Tuairisc
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- (continued from previous page)that he would find him dead in the morning because there were some men found dead there before. At about twelve o'clock in the night the man heard a great noise and the door of the castle opened and in came three men carrying a coffin.
They laid it in (the) front of the fire and went away. The man got up from bed and he said he would open the coffin and see what was in it. He opened it and found a body without a head.
He told it to get up and warm itself by the fire. The man got no answer and he got into bed again and kept looking out at the coffin(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Biggins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloondaver, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Joseph Biggins
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Cloondaver, Co. Mayo
