School: Cill Ruadháin (roll number 7088)
- Location:
- Lios Ghearóid, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Labhrás Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0533, Page 349
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- Imelda O' Meara
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carraig Ó nEitheach, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Winnie Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- An Ghráig Uachtarach, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- In the townsland of Ballymacree there is a railway bridge. One night a man was coming along the bridge when a train came on, ran over him, and severed his head from his body.
About two years after on the same night a woman was putting cows into a field beside the (bribge) bridge. It was about eleven o' clock. She saw a man walking on the railway and all of a sudden a train came along at an awful speed and the next thing she saw was a man's head flying in the air just as happened two years before.
When the woman went home she told her people what she had seen. At first they did not believe her but the man was often seen after that.Written by Imelda O'Meara, Carriganagh, Nenagh.
Told by Winnie Ryan, Beechwood, Nenagh. Age 70
