School: Ballyvaldon (roll number 10792)
- Location:
- Ballyvaldon, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0885, Page 265
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- (continued from previous page)fell into this + got killed. The Murphy's tried to fill in the trenches but all the horses died
Another Raheen is situated on Brien's Farm Inch
It is said to have been built by the Danes
Tis said that Irishmen were employed to build those raheens + the gravel being got in the gravel pits round. There was always an entrance hole where the Danes retreated when defeated in battleOn the land of James Kehoe Killincooley there is what is regarded locally as a Fairy Fort
Mr Kehoe says he would not meddle with the soil of that place if he got the "Sweep" for doing so.
The foll story is told :-
In the towns land of Tinnaberna lived a family named Ryan who had a son Tom aged 12.
Mrs Whelan a neighbour sent Patrick to Mrs Ryan on a message
Mrs Ryan inquired if he saw Tom. Patrick said "Not"
She went outside + said "There he is hurling on the Raheen Dont you see his red shirt" Whelan saw the boy and Mrs Ryan + himself went in search of the lad but when they arrived he was not to be seen.
When they arrived home Tom was sitting at the fire + vowed he had never been near the Raheen that day.(continues on next page)
