School: Baldwinstown
- Location:
- Baldwinstown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Ristéard Mac Plib
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0876, Page 350
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- There once lived a family in a little house near Baldwinstown known by the name of the O'Briens. Every single night at 12 - o'clock a lot of noise was heard in a little press in a room.
The people of tthe house began to get afraid. The next thing they did was, they went to the priest and told him about it. The priest was astonished and told him when he would hear the noise again to shake holy water and to say, "begone Satan I will denounce you." He shook the holy water and said what he was told and still it was no better as the noise was still heard. He shook a bottle of holy water and no better.
In the latter end his patience(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alice Hore
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bridgetown, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- James Hayes
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Longridge, Co. Wexford
