School: Ballyjamesduff (B.)
- Location:
- Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. O' Donovan
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- (continued from previous page)went home and told his wife what had happened, and she said she would poison him. She went down to the well, and threw poison into it.
The next morning James came down to the well, and took a drink out of it. He felt an ugly taste of it, and then he went mad and died. When the people heard that, they were glad, and then they threw him into a hole beside the well. After that the well got the name of Mad James's well. - You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Robert O' Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ramonan, Co. Cavan