School: Newbawn (roll number 16072)
- Location:
- Newbawn, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Seán de Buitléir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0882, Page 399
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“There is a church yard in this parish and every night about 12 o'clock a light rises out of one of the corners.”
(continued from previous page)said that they would stay up all night and watch. About 12 oclock a light came out of the corner of the churchyard five or six times and then came out into the field.
It came over to where the body was buried and disappeared. People said that was the way the men went when they were digging up the corpse and they were not able to carry it any further.