School: Ballinacree (B.) (roll number 13965)

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Ballynacree, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Pádraic Ó Connachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0717, Page 167

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0717, Page 167

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    That old house there near the churchyard avenue was a kidnapper's house. There were a crowd there called the Comaskeys. They were herds as well. They used to rob the graveyard. If any young person died of decline or the like they came a night and took the body out of the coffin and send it to Dublin for the young doctors to look over it.
    They used to put the body in a barrel such and send it on the cars to Dublin.
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Oilibhéar Ó h-Iolracháin
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Owen KEvin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    78
    Address
    Hammondstown and Tonaghmore, Co. Westmeath