School: Cros Riabhach
- Location:
- Crossreagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Siordáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1003, Page 379
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- One cold night about twelve O Clock, when a man who lived in Corfad was coming home off his ceilide. He heard something like a blast of wind coming down the road. When it came nearer he saw it was a thing like a cart with no wheels on which two men with no heads sat and the road shook when it was going by. People say it was a dead coach that that would start in an old grave yard near Mullagh and come down the road every night.
There is a little house in Mullagh graveyard and people say it was used by people long ago when they would be watching their dead after them being buried.
- Collector
- Patrick Farrelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corfad, Co. Cavan
