School: Loughagar (roll number 5696)
- Location:
- Loughagar More, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Énrí Mac an Abba
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0737, Page 424
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“The year after the famine there was a covetous old man named Brady who lived in Ballynagall.”
(continued from previous page)his coat and kept going. They run him to Hickey's in Taughmon. He threw off his waist-coat and kept going to Rouloughlin fort in Drumhurlin. They turned him for the Crookedwood. When he came to the corner of the wood he crossed the ditch and lay down in the ferns.
The fairies surrounded him shouting, "He is in the ferns." The Poet Daly's wife who was gathering sprigs next morning found him lying unconcious and told the old poet who was in bed.
He got up and brought him in to the house and they lit a fire round him and after a time he got better.
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“Long ago it was the custom to bury a sheaf of oats for a person who was not liked.”
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- Patrick Cleary
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 38
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Loughagar Beg, Co. Westmeath