School: Crosspatrick, Johnstown
- Location:
- Crosspatrick, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: P. Ó Foghlú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0869, Page 172
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“Some time ago a man and a woman went out to bind, the woman had her child with her a baby girl.”
Some time ago a man and a woman went out to bind, the woman had her child with her a baby girl. She put the girl in a stook and started to bind. then she went in to get the dinner when she had the dinner got she came out for the child but though she marched every stook in the field she couldn't get the child. They never got trace nor tale of her About 20 years after, the father was coming up the lane near the house and he met a funeral. A young girl came up to him and lifted him out of the way and she said to him "Keep out of the way or follow this to Fartagh. Then the man knew the girl. It was his daughter grown up after 20 years.
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“Years ago the headless coach used to pass up by our house about 12 o' clock.”
Years ago the headless coach used to pass up by our house about 12 o'clock. Twas a big long carriage with two horses without any heads on them and a couple of drivers without any heads on them either. It used to pass our house and into Shearman's yard and if you put out your head when it was passing twould be cut off you. - Collector
- Mauraid Foley
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