School: Ballinacree (B.) (roll number 13965)
- Location:
- Ballynacree, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Pádraic Ó Connachtáin
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- (continued from previous page)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.
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- Collector
- Oilibhéar Ó h-Iolracháin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Owen KEvin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Hammondstown and Tonaghmore, Co. Westmeath