School: Ballinacree (C.) (roll number 13966)
- Location:
- Ballynacree, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Eibhlín Bean Uí Chonnachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0717, Page 373
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- (continued from previous page)he saw the cloven foot and then he knew he was playing with the devil. After a while he said he was going home. He was not gone far until he met a funeral and it was a rule at that time to catch hold of the corpse. As soon as he did this the corpse fell to the ground and a lovely girl walked from it and told him she would be his wife. He brought her home to his mother and at the game this girl was supposed to be walking at her home forty miles away. The good people had brought her to the widows son. The next morning he saddled his horse to go to her funeral. When he got there the funeral was just leaving. The young man ordered a slasher's, which he got and when he followed the funeral. When he reached the graveyard he ordered the people to leave down the coffin. They refused to do so at first but he made them. So then he got his slashers through the coffin and broke it in halves and there was a broom in it so he asked them was it that they were going to bury. Then he got up on his horse and went home.Bridie Hennessy
- Collector
- Bridie Hennessy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Joe Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Farren Connell, Co. Cavan
