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   “Captain Ogle when he was doing the damage here in Ireland....”

   

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   The dead coach runs from Ballen na Slaney on to Oylegate. One night it made an awful noise and it was seen that night also. It used be very seldom seen. This night it was to be seen drawn by two horses, and they were coal black and every part of the coach was black. There was a jinnet inside a ditch beside the road where the coach passed and he leaped out over a gate and away along the road. The owner of the jinnet was searching for him for three days and at last he found him and he was as thin as a raven. He brought him home and put him in the field where he leaped out of but he wouldn't stop in it. He jumped out that night again and ran away and everyone wondered at him for he was the quietest animal in that part of the county.

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   Date

   24 Meitheamh 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Peadar Ó Dorcaigh