School: Straboe (roll number 12934)
- Location:
- Straboe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Bríd Nic Cormaic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0835, Page 140
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- There was a little old man seen by my uncle on a wall one night. The next night my uncle went out to see was the little old man there. He looked over the wall. He looked around again. Just when he looked around the little old man leaped out of a fur and frightened him. Then he took to his heels. The little old man went away in a blaze of fire. I went myself to see the little man. And I saw him on a post near Mountrath my uncle said. When it was there no one would pass that place for fear the little old man would change them into something. he was a horrible little man. When he(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Lalor
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Micheal Newsome
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Capard, Co. Laois
