School: Scoil na mBráthar, Carraig na Siúire (roll number 16725)
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Mocháin
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- Laurence Dowley
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- Address
- Carrickbeg, Co. Tipperary
- StoryOnce upon a time there was an old Jarvey man going to the races of Thurles. He met four men carrying a coffin on the road. They stopped him and put up the coffin and got up themselves. They kept going on until they came to a cross-roads and told him to stop. They got to wait until they came back. They brought the coffin into a graveyard and came back without the coffin. They got up again and told him to keep driving on. As he was driving on he looked behind him and to his great surprise he found that the(continues on next page)
