School: Tulach Sheasta, Clochair na Trócaire
- Location:
- Newport, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Sr Bertrand
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0539, Page 292
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)heavier, still they struggled on tenaciously, for they were determined to reach the graveyard, at all costs, as they knew that if anyone else interfered with the coffin the whole thing would be a failure. Just as they were within a few yards of the churchyard gate, the weight became so intense that they staggered under it, but yet continued on.
These were anxious moments fro all concerned, especially the mother of the dead person. She lost all presence of mind and ran to the coffin to help the men. Suddenly the corpse became as light as a cork and it was then possible for the smallest child in the neighbourhood to carry it , and so through the almost unconscious intervention of a woman a miracle was prevented, and hundreds of spectators who travelled far and wide were deprived of seeing the greatest incident that they could ever hope to witness.
This story when told in modern(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Noreen Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Dan Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortshane West, Co. Tipperary
