School: Oylegate (roll number 5918)
- Location:
- Oilgate, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Braoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0886, Page 193
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- (continued from previous page)in the ground and put his hat and coat on the spade and hid behind the ditch. In the evening a man was passing and he thought that the man had fallen into the well. He went back to the village and brought a whole lot of men back with him, and they dug up the well. Then the man came out from his hiding place and thanked the men.
- Once upon a time there was a man who was not afraid of anything. He used to come through a grave yard to his work and one night a man thought of a plan to frighten the other man. The man went down at nightfall to the graveyard and put a white sheet around him and lay down behind a tombstone until the man coming from(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Aidan Parker
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolamain, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mr Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolamain, Co. Wexford
