School: Scoil na mBráthar (roll number 16741)
- Location:
- New Ross, Co. Wexford
- Teachers: Aindrias Ó Caoilte Br Ó Cinnéide
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- My mother told me a story about St Mary's grave yard. Long ago a man got a ladder and climbed up to the cross on St Marys church, When he reached the cross he began to try and pull it down but he did not succeed. He became angry and got down and got a hammer and went up angry.
When he gave the first blow of the hammer to the gross he lost his balance and fell down. When he reached the ground he turned into stone. It is said that every Good Friday the stone begins to bleed. Nobody ever tried to pull after that.
Long ago a piper and a dog went down a tunnel under the ground in St Mary's grave yard. The people ran over to Rosbercon to meet him. One man stayed behind to see if he would come back. The piper had a pound betted that he would go under-ground over to Rosbercon. The piper was never seen after that. Some say he got suffocated more say he was killed by rats and more say he was drowned.
I was going looking for old tombstones I saw an old tombstone standing in a bunch of nettles. I made my way through the nettles. I saw written on the tombstone 1790. It was nearly blotted out with age.
- One day a soldier was in the Little Churchyard. He got up to a cross which was a cross of a catholic church. He climbed up on a ladder when he came to the cross he commenced to try and knock it and after a while fell down on the ground(continues on next page)
