School: Stackallen (roll number 1309)
- Location:
- Stackallan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: P.T. Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0714, Page 006
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- (continued from previous page)going towards the river. The moate field is the name of a field O often went through. It is a big field with a mound in the middle of it. The Crocken is the name of another field I know. It is an old bottoms with the Gernonstown river flowing through it. The following is a story I heard about that field. One night after twelve o'clock in the night a man was going home from Rushwee.
When he was in the middle of the field the Devil appeared to him. The Devil is supposed to be a black man with horns like a ram. When the Devil met the man he said "When you go home you are to cut your wife's throat." When the man went home there was a razor on the dresser so he got the razor and was about to cut his wife's throat when somebody ran in and stopped him. Next morning when the people were coming to mass the shoulders of the man's coat were seen in the bushes.
- Collector
- Thomas Martin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gernonstown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Michael Creegan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Gernonstown, Co. Meath
