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1. The Dead Coach (continued)

   

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   very dark and he stood back a little distance from the window. He averred that he saw the horses with half necks and the headless coachman and at that instant he thought a shower of gravel must have hit the window which flew in pieces round his face. Only for the fact the he instinctively blinked he would have lost his eyesight. He bore cuts and scratches on his face and forehead for many a day.

   John Redmond of Ballinkillen told me that the dead coach used drive past Ballinkillen, Cashel and Kilgreany and so much racket did it make that delph was knocked off the dressers in many houses. John told me that an old man named Flanagan who lived at the Cashel, a few hundred yards from the school, actually saw the Dead Coach beside him on the road. With several other men he was playing cards on a bright moonlight night on a large flagstone near where the Cashel Road adjoins the Ballinkillen Lorum Road. Suddenly the sound of rolling wheels was heard and the Dead Coach swept round the bend. Flanagan's companions fled in terror

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Informant

   John Redmond

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Baile an Choillín, Co. Cheatharlach

   Informant

   Thomas Burke

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Soldier

   Address

   Baile an Chnocáin, Co. Cheatharlach