Story (19)

In the townland Connacán Bán there lived two families whose lands were boundring one another. Each possessed big farms. They did not agree about the boundary.
A river ran through their lands and the river was supposed to be the boundary. One man said his land crossed the river and covered the glen close to the river.
One evening late while one of the farmers had gone to the forge, the other came and wired what he supposed to be his own land. Next day when the other farmer appeared, he saw the wire, and he went with implements to take it away.
But he did not succeed. He went home and he got a bad cold
He remained in bed for twelve months and he died.
Some time after his death he was seen walking along near the wire