School: Raharney (B.)
- Location:
- Raharney, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Ó Conmhidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0727, Page 103
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- John Price aged sixty two told me that long ago people used to hear a ghost bawling like a turkeycock and Girrock cross roads every night and a man went out trying to see him. He went down as far as the crossroads but he could see nothing he returned and as he was going he heard the noise again. The next night he went down as far as Hiney’s hill and he saw a troop of fairies wheeling a four wheeled chair and one fairy sitting in it carrying a pot of gold. They went down as far as Patrick Hiney’s and after passing that house disappeared. The man came home again and never heard the noise again.
- In Trim about seventy years ago a man who could not sleep, thinking of gold in the garden left the country. For years he stood on a bridge in London, and each day(continues on next page)
