School: Latnamard (roll number 16769)
- Location:
- Latnamard, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Mary Duffy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0949, Page 448
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- (continued from previous page)jamb corner, wringing her hands & weeping, but his mother.
When John entered, she jumped from her seat & says she, "Arrah John, avic, where in the world have you been"? Sure I thought you were lost entirely & that I'd never set eyes on you again." John was dumbfounded, & it was with difficulty he got his mother to understand that he thought she was lost. He enquired how she had got home & she told him that when he crossed the stile at the Giants' Grave, she was lifted by unseen hands, & carried away over bog & ditch & even over Raffoney Lough itself & deposited safe & sound on her own street.
- Informant
- Miss S. A. Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumlina, Co. Monaghan
