School: Killymarley (roll number 15398)
- Location:
- Killymarly, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0957, Page 292
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- (continued from previous page)pronounced a curse on the place and on its owner saying that the grass would grow at the hall door and that no son would ever be born within its walls.Colonel Graeme died at Coolmain House and his remains were interred in Tyholland churchyard. He left no family and the place changed owners again and again no one person living for any length of time. Some ill-luck followed each owner. Ghosts were seen, doors banged and windows rattled all night long. One owner, Mr. Graham, ended his days in a lunatic asylum and another, who was a heavy drinker, drove his horse over a high wall and in the fall his neck was broken.The grass grew long and thick on the top step at the hall door and no son was born there for almost two hundred years after the curse was pronounced.
- Collector
- Harry Jackson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corlat, Co. Monaghan
