School: Loughteague, Stradbally (roll number 6129)
- Location:
- Loughteeog, Co. Laois
- Teachers: Brigid Keane Brighid Ní Chatháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0837, Page 172
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- (continued from previous page)There is a haunted house on the road from Stradbally to Portarlington Railway Station near Killeenard. It a empty as no one can live in it.
- The road between Maryboro & Stradbally was always unlucky until Fr. Callagan of Stradbally settled it. "Something" used to trouble that road. Accidents fatal or nearly fatal, run-a -ways and the like were of constant occurrence. Not a week passed without some ugly accident happening.In the year 1867 or 68 a fever broke out in Athy. Until then the mails had been taken from Stradbally to Athy. Then the route was changed to Maryboro. Fr. Callagan gave the money to a man named Flanagan to purchase a pony and cart to carry the mails. Flanagan hadn't been three weeks on the road when the pony, xar and himself were pitched headlong in the ditch at Bloomfield. After that Fr. Callagan walked the road from Strad. to Maaryboro wearing his stole and reading prayers every inch of the way. From that day to this no fatal accidents have happened.
- Informant
- Mrs Dunne
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 81
