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The fifth Maronis shot himself in his late Marquis , father of the present one , covered that a mistake had been made in the Beresford clan . Hogged and put to death Tyrone which appeared in October , 1893 . to the wife of Sir Tristram Beresford , and field . The fourth Marquis . a Protestant flows through the grounds of Curraghmore . escaped death some years ago in a motor peasant was , by order of the then head of box at Curraghmore . death being ascribed would die at the age of 47 . She had passed Beresford ghost , too-the ghost of Lord curraghmore " curse . " was accidentally drowned in the river that lating herself when it was accidentally dis- Banshee and ghost . ine from a swimo injury in the hunting the fatal 17th birthday , and was congrat- Lord Delavel Beresford was killed in a curse which the death of the late Marquis It is related that in the days when the her age-she was really only 16 . She died announced among other things that she shot in 1910 in trying to stop a runaway de la Poer Beresford was killed at Alder- only three have died natural deaths . The This long line of ill-fortune was ascribed Penal Laws were in force a young Catholic by a legend to an untimely death . railwar accident in Texas , and Capt. C. C. horse . Lord Marcus himself narrowly study at Curraghmore after years of suffer- was supposed to have lifted , he having There is a Beresford Banshee and a rent for generations among the deasantry . accident , and once while steeplechasing he in the courtyard at Ourraghmore , despite to poisoning . ' The third Maronis had his clergyman , was found dead in a shooting the same night-and legend says her wrist neck broken by a fall from his hunter . to the curse " resting on the family , a Of the seven Marquises of Waterford ! was nearly drowned in an open ditch . thereupon uttered the terrible prophecy . been the last of seven Beresfords doomed was withered where the ghost had touched beginning occurs the prophecy . " You'll and it goes on to say : At country fairs one may still hear the O' Berestord ! O' Berestord ! . Curse on the Beresford Breed . " In it And not and voters accused will be , gallad-sinzers' chant the " legend of the The ballads are based on the stories cur- the pleadings of his widowed mother , who , hunt with death through all the years , ' You can't escape by land or sea For death will strike you suddenly , it ! You'll ford Breed . " In the