School: St John's Monastery, Ballaghderreen (roll number 13709)
- Location:
- Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An Br. P. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0241, Page 262
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Stories told in Barony: Costello
County: Roscommon
Related By: Mrs Downes, 80 years
Address: Ballaghaderreen
Written By: Louis Freyne
Address: Ballaghaderreen
Age: 12 yrs
Date: Apr 1938Long ago in the time of the coaches there was a man in this town who was an enemy of one of the coach-drivers. One night the man made up his mind to kill the driver, so he hid by the roadside and when the coach was passing he threw a knife at him and killed him.
About a year later the murderer was walking in the Lung road when a coach shot out in front of him and driving it was the man he had killed he year before. He was filled with terror and began to run away but just then the sound of an anvil rang out thrice and he fell dead.
After that, the coach went all through(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Louis Frain
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Downes
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon
