In Ballyea about one hundred years ago there was a woman named Mrs Hogan. She was a widow woman and had a big family and was poor. She was a grandmother of Dan Sullivan's of Ballyea. She used to go to Killaloe to do her shopping and no matter what money she spent she would have the same money in her purse coming home. Then she began to tell the people about her money. After a short time she got no more and every night they used to hear horses jumping out over the house. She had a daughter named Biddy and she was married to a man named Sullivan who lived near, on a
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