School: Ballintemple
- Location:
- Ballintemple, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Nic Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0991, Page 220
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- There is a lane in the parish of Ballintemple and it is called Ballintemple Lane. There is a house at the end of the lane which is about half mile from main road, and the person who lives in it now is Robert Acheson a relative of John Doherty. John Doherty is dead now, when he died he left his house to his relative Robert Acheson, John Dorothy had a coach drawn by two horses. It is said many people have seen this coach at night after his death going up the lane to where he lived.
There is a little house in the haggard where he used to keep his coach. It is said that he goes up the lane every night and he leaves his coach and two horses in this house and it is called "Doherty's Dead Coach".
- Collector
- Eileen Kilroy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patricia Reddy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballintemple, Co. Cavan
