School: Aughclare
- Location:
- Aughclare, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: M.E. Campbell
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0873, Page 110
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: Aughclare
- XML Page 110
- XML “Another Black Dog”
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)Kilmackea in years gone by. One night the priest of the place was called out on a sick call to a dying man. He used to go on these journeys in a horse and car and used to be driven by a man named Deegan.
On this particular night the black dog got in the path of the horse and did all he could to frighten if not kill the animal. The priest and the man Deegan had terrible trouble trying to coax and force the horse to get to the sick man in time, but however they got there and the priest made the man ready for death.
As they were leaving the house to go home the dog again got in their path but eventually they arrived home. The priest told Deegan to attend to the horse whilst he went in for a whip. With this whip he followed and beat the black dog along the road down to Milltown bridge where the parish divides and he banished him into the river. He was never seen again on the Kilmanock road.
- Informant
- Anthony Gaffney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Aughclare, Co. Wexford
