The Tinure Donkey and the Ghosts of Red-Gap Hill

The Tinure donkey and the ghosts About twenty years ago [about 1910), there lived in this parish of Tenure, an old man named Dan McCullough, who used to see a ghost nearly every night. One night he was coming from Drogheda with a donkey, the donkey stopped seven times from the dispensary to the Red Gap hill, that is the place where Cromwell fought his battle. The poor old man would take off his hat, and put it on the donkey's eyes, and he would move along. Every time the donkey would see a ghost he would stop, and start sweating, and try to turn on the road. That would happen any time he would be late coming from Drogheda on that part of the road. Around about that locality, a great many people see a ghost. There is a gate on the top of the Red-Gap hill, which keeps shaking the calmest night of the year at twelve o clock. A little north of the Red-Gap is another ghost place. One night a man was coming with a bundle of hay on his back, when crossing a stile, he felt no weight on his back. He looked behind him, and saw about twenty little men. He went on farther, and just when he was going past a place called the "middle gap", all the little men disappeared. They were called the good men. Plenty of people hear footsteps late at night at that place. https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5008866/4962225/5078770 The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0674, Page 284 Photographer Maurice Curtin https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbeg/6136 The Photographic Collection, A015.15.00018