School: Borrisoleigh (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 214
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- (continued from previous page)I started in search of my own door. Round and round the walls I went again and again but though I found the four corners no house could I meet. Stranger still my hand never came in contact with the gate and as no one passed I never knew when I was walking along the road wall. Don't think I was frightened - I wasn't.
Growing tired of walking, I sat down and remained in this position till daylight came. Before the sun came up I thought I felt the earth stirring under me but still I did not lose my courage. With the first rays of light I discovered that I was sitting in the centre of the churchyard and not, as I thought, within a yard of the wall and there, right before me, was the wide-open door.Told by Tobias Tynan, - (Aged 25 years.)
Rathmoyne
Borrisoleigh.Jeremiah Crowley,
Lower St.,
Borrisoleigh.
November 11, 1938.
- Collector
- Jeremiah Crowley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Tobias Tynan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 25
- Address
- Rathmoy, Co. Tipperary
