School: Cuan an Bhainigh (Bannow)

Location:
Carrick, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Tomás Breatnach

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0876, Page 106

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One very dark winter's night there was a man named Martin Culleton coming from Grange. He started to walk down the hill of the Tokar and he thought he never left the road.
After a while he felt himself walking up against a ditch. He turned around and walked down a piece and found himself inside a gate.
The gate was shut and from that day he never could find out how he got into the field.

One night about twenty years ago a man named Simon Devereux was coming up the road from Bannow about half past eleven o'clock.
At the Little Moor Gate it rained a shower and he stopped in the ditch till it was over. He started again and the road was very sloppy. When he was coming about the School House

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Informant
James Colfer
Gender
male
Age
53
Address
Haggard, Co. Wexford
Language
English