School: Ballinacree (C.) (roll number 13966)
- Location:
- Ballynacree, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Eibhlín Bean Uí Chonnachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0717, Page 378
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- One evening when it was just turning dusk My Sister and two girl neighbours were playing in a field near by There was a hedge across in the middle of the field which was called the ash hedge. As they were playing one of the girls met a man with a baby in his arms when the girl saw him she turned back to tell her Companions but when the reached the place he had dissapeared they returned home quickly and they never went there again.
- Collector
- Toireasa Balb
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Ballynacree, Co. Meath
