School: Ballinacree (B.) (roll number 13965)
- Location:
- Ballynacree, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Pádraic Ó Connachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0717, Page 104
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- (continued from previous page)a man, who wanted to fence a gap in a ditch, came with his saw to cut it down.
When he got inside bark he heard a voice saying, "If you go farther with it you will be sorry," and he kept cutting away. When he had it half cut the blood began to shoot out, still he cut another little bit.
Then he thought of himself and he fled leaving the saw stuck in the bleeding bush. This man died inside a week.
There is a bit of the saw in the bush yet as the neigbours were afraid to take it away, and the rest of it has rusted away.
The bush is there still and from the cut up it is decayed but the stump is quite sound.
- Collector
- Oistín Ó Bhrádaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathmea, Co. Meath
- Informant
- James Brady
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Rathmea, Co. Meath
