School: Aughclare
- Location:
- Aughclare, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: M.E. Campbell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0873, Page 125
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- (continued from previous page)over the ditch he disappeared and was not seen any more.Probably he may have been the young boy who was taken away by the fairies in his childhood.
- There was an old woman who lived in Ballykerogue a long time ago. She was a witch and she had great magic power.
It is said that she could stop a pair of horses working in a field many miles from where she livedOne day a man was working in a field under the hill of Slive-Coillte and the witch tried to stop his horses but she could not. It was afterwards found out that the man had a harnes made from a hazel stick.When she died the priests would not allow her body to be buried in consecrated ground so she was buried on the ditch which divides Ballykerogue church(continues on next page) - Collector
- Laurence Gaffney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghclare, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Honor Foley
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
