School: Dunboyne (C.) (roll number 15917)
- Location:
- Dunboyne, Co. Meath
- Teachers: Seosaimhín Ní Chonmidhe Uná Frinse
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0689, Page 019
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Dunboyne (C.)
- XML Page 019
- XML “Haunted Dwellings”
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)trouble. Lady Conshore answered if she would go next day and get a mass said for her she would be the wealthiest woman in the place by giving her a crock of gold but she was not to tell anyone not even her husband. She also said "meet me tomorrow night at mid-night and I'll give you the crock of gold if you grant my request.
When the old woman got home she could not keep her secret and she told her husband. He told her to go and get the mass said next day which she did. At mid-night she went to keep the appointment to get the crock of gold but instead she was beaten black and blue for not keeping her promise. Lady Conshore said all the masses in the world would not save her then, and that she must wander the world and the old woman also.
Next morning, she was found dying she died in a few days. Nobody knew the cause only her husband. Lady Conshore still haunts Court Hill Told to Betty Kane
By her father (Mr) Christy Kane
- Collector
- Betty Kane
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Christy Kane
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
