School: Faythe (roll number 11361)
- Teacher: An tSr. Columcille
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- (continued from previous page)room. This happened in Johnstown. The man's name was Fitzgerald and the woman's name was Morris the woman is still alive.
- One day Lady Moriss's husband was in the garden and there was a statue of the blessed Virgin in the grounds. He got the statue on his back and broke the head off against a stone. That evening he was in the grounds with hs little son. He was playing. He put the child on his back and broke his neck.
- Collector
- Maureen Scott
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Faythe, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mrs Scott
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Faythe, Co. Wexford
- If a child raises his hand to his mother his hand will be uncovered over the grave when he dies. My mother told me the following story. Long ago a(continues on next page)
