School: Ballycanew (Mixed) (roll number 15420/15430)
- Location:
- Ballycanew, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Conchubhar Ua Maoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0889, Page 177
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“Mr Whelan told me that the people of Tomsilla and Banogue were extremely superstitions chiefly about ghosts.”
771. Thomas Whelan
2. Present address unknown. Went to New Zealand about 25 years ago. Not heard of for some years.
3. About 40 when he told me
4. Manager of Mr. Rathwells, Ballycanew.
5. Probably in Carlow, Tomsilla, Ballycanew.
6. Some old people living in Banogue
Mr. Whelan told me that the people of Tomsilla and Banogue were extremely superstitious chiefly about ghosts. So often did they appear in an old Bóithrín that it got and still bears the name - The Fairy Lane. The place was very thickly wood-wooded and some of the trees exhibited some strange freaks of nature. The old people told Mr. Whelan that the boughs of some trees were so arranged as to form(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Thomas Whelan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 40
- Occupation
- Manager