Volume: CBÉ 0189
- Date
- 1935
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0189, Page 116
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“There was an ould woman who lived about two miles from Adamstown.”
There was an ould woman who lived about two miles from Adamstown. She was going home fairly late wan night, and she was passing through an ould disused quarry. The Gravel Hole we call it. It was late, and the ould woman was visiting a sick friend.
One side of the quarry, or The Gravel Hole, was rather steep and the ould woman was hard set to climb up it. Well, just as she set about climbing someone put on a hand to help her up. She took the hand and she got up to the top. When she got up she could see no one and she got a terrible fright. She was hard set to get home. When she got in home she told them her story, and she had no more than told it when she fell in a heap and died