School: Baile Roibín, Knocktopher
- Location:
- Newmarket, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0849, Page 222
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- (continued from previous page)what the ment he told her that her family would be corsed to the seventh generation, a prediction which proved true the last of tham died about twenty years ago in Kisurl. One of them was buried in Ahenny there was a statue put over the grave. A farmer who lived near wanted one of the arms for a scythe stone and came one night to saw it off. As he was entering the grave yard he he saw his house in a mass of flames he ran back and when he came near it, he saw no fire at all. He went the second time and the same thing happened he went the third time and the same thing happened but he did not go back, he cut off the arm and when he went home the place was burned to the ground.
- Collector
- James Holden
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Frank Lonergan
- Gender
- Male
