School: Piltown (B.) (roll number 6189)
- Location:
- Piltown, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Maolchaoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0842, Page 267
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- A very old man told my father a story. My father told me the story. He said:- About two hundred years ago four Fiddown men went out to fish. It was very late in the night. They heared a cot coming up the river.They thought it was a Mooncoin boat. It came toward them. It was manned by two big men. It hit their boat and sank it. One of the men clung to a bit of timber. He looked around and he saw nothing. He was also drowned. Every night after that the people heard shouting and roaring. The "death-boat" was never seen again.
- Collector
- John Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Piltown, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Thomas Cuddihy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Clerk
- Address
- Piltown, Co. Kilkenny
