School: Gusserane
- Location:
- Gusserane, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Mrs Corish
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0872, Page 129
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- (continued from previous page)The ditches were levelled out by men who worked with the owner of this rath and there is an old gateway going into the one in Burkestown.
It is said by the old people that the rath in Ballytarsna which at that time was owned by Mr. Power Ballytarsna, Ballycullane, Co. Wexford was full of fairies they say that one year this man Mr. Power sent out his employers to level down the ditches of this rath and before the next year was out every animal on the farm had died. Ever since this happened even up to this day the field the rath is on was never tilled or touched. There is no story that the old people know of connected with the rath in Rathimney but the one in Burkestown there is supposed to be an old woman sitting inside the rath(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Kearney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Burkestown, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mr John Kearney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Burkestown, Co. Wexford
