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School: Piercetown (C.) (roll number 8690)

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Piercetown, Co. Wexford
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Máire Furlong
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0879, Page 363

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    In Whitestown there is a cemetery. There, people were buried in the Penal times.
    There is also the ruins of a church there which was in good order about two or three centuries ago.
    It is said that two nuns are seen walking across the cemetery and up avenue which leads from Mr Pettits house to the road. They are dressed in black and White habits. They walk between 12 and 1-o-clock.
    There is also a fairy rath there. And it is said that the fairies sit on it and sing and play bagpipes. It is said too that a man went to cut down a bush on it one day, but when he went there he fell down.
    And when he rose again he could not find his way home.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Mc Bride
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Piercetown, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    Mr Power
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Latimerstown, Co. Wexford