School: Coolfancy, Tinahely

Location:
Coolafancy, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Dll. Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0922, Page 053

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0922, Page 053

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  1. Kilcashel graveyard a few miles from here. A grave was dug one day in this graveyard. There was a path through beside this grave. There was a man who went this path on his way home every night: a trickster thought he would frighten him. He got down in the grave and when the man was passing, he began moaning and crying "I am dying with the cold". the man was not a bit frightened but he said "Why wouldn't you be cold and nothing over you" and at the same time he threw a few shovelfuls of clay in on the trickster.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
          1. graveyards (~2,501)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Alice St Leger
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Coolroe, Co. Wicklow