School: Piercetown (C.) (roll number 8690)
- Location:
- Piercetown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Máire Furlong
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0879, Page 392
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- FOLKLOREREceived from Mr Power Latimerstown PiercestownIn Whitestown there is an old cemetery in which people were buried in the Penal Times.There is also the ruins of an old church which was in good order about three centuries ago.It is said that two nuns dressed in black and white habits are seen between 12 and 1 at night walking across the cemetery and up to the avenue which leads from Mrs Pettits house to the road.One nun is said to carry a very large cross.There is also a fairy rath on this land. It is told that the fairies sit on this rath and sign and play bagpipes.It is said too that a man went to thge rath one day to cut a bush which grew there but no sooner did he touch the bush when down he fell.When he was able to rise again he could not find his way home till help came.Mary FurlongPiercestown Girls' Sch.
- Collector
- Mary Furlong
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Power
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Latimerstown, Co. Wexford
