School: Cnoc an Éin Fhinn (Birdhill) (roll number 13991)
- Location:
- Cooleen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Meachair
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- About eighty years ago there was a man and his wife living in Boher. One night the man's wife died and he went to a neighbour and asked him to go for a coffin. The man went for it and when he was coming home he got tired. At this time he was the top of a hill so he left down the coffin and sat on it. Then the coffin began to roll down the hill at the time two men were coming up the hill, and when they heard the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Herbert
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Birdhill, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Joseph Herbert
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Manager
- Address
- Birdhill, Co. Tipperary