School: Scoil na mBráthar, Carraig na Siúire (roll number 16725)

Location:
Carraig na Siúire, Co. Thiobraid Árann
Teacher:
An Br. Ó Mocháin
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  1. XML School: Scoil na mBráthar, Carraig na Siúire
  2. XML Page 094
  3. XML “The Headless Coach”
  4. XML “The Mystery Horse”

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    1. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. neacha neamhshaolta agus osnádúrtha (~14,864)
      2. daoine
        1. robálaithe (~423)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Patrick Rockett
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carraig na Siúire, Co. Thiobraid Árann
  2. Once upon a time there were two men and they were going home from a fair. It was very late in the night and on the road they heard a horse trotting. They looked behind to see the horse and they could not see him. At last one of the men went home and the other man went into a field and when he went in he sat down in side the ditch.
    After a few minutes he came out and he saw the horse and a lot of dead people going along the road and then
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