School: Scoil na mBráthar, Loch Garman (roll number 16742)
- Location:
- Wexford, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: An Br. D. C. Ó hÉilighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0880, Page 367
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- One night in November 1912 a man and his son were seated at the fire. The son had set a snare for a rabbit, and said to his father that he'd like to see if there was any "catch" in the snare. He went out, it being nine o'clock on a bright moonlight night. The son went to the edge of a marl-hole which was just across the the border of his fathers field. The poor boy returned very frightened and said that as he approached a ditch he saw a lot of "'98 men", drilling with pikes and their faces were terribly white. He was very frightened. Some time afterwards, the father of this boy was digging a potato patch and unearthed the head of a pike which he still has. The man's name id Patrick Roche. The boy Pat Roche died during the Great War.
- Collector
- Edward Hynes
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Wexford, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Patrick Roche
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Oldhall, Co. Wexford
