'Twas turf-cutting time around the year 1878. Patton of Welshtown district and his men were cutting turf, high up on the south west slope of Lettershanbo Hill, on the property of Patton of Lettershanbo. The spadesman suddenly uncovered the body of a man. People gathered from all sides, but were prevented by the police from coming very near. Men of an older generation said he resembled a man who disappeared very mysteriously about 40 years previously. As the body became exposed to the air, the flesh became detached from the bone.

Now we go back about 40 years...

A man, who had been out of the district for a period, was due to inherit property if he returned. It was going to another man in the district if man number one did not appear. Man number two arranged with others to have number one met on his way home. They met him and put him drunk. They led him away far from his usual homeward path. Then, having finished him off, they buried him on Patton's Hill, Lettershanbo, where the bog preserved his body.

Down the years afterwards, people told of how a light used to rise from the murder spot on Patton's Hill; crossed the moorland for about a mile, and came to rest upon a treetop above the residence of man number two.