School: Carrigbyrne (roll number 4479)
- Location:
- Carrickbyrne, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Máire Cuirtéis
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“There was a blacksmith livin' in the Co. Wexford wan time an' he was very poor.”
(continued from previous page)powers an' I bet you you couldn't go in this box". The divil went in and the fifty young fellas followed im. The smith wouldn't let im an' the divil asked 'im to let 'im out an' that he wouldn't come back for another ten years. The smith did so The ten years weren't long goin' an' the divil came along, an' the smith forgot all about the apple tree an' he locked the dure an' was goin off. When they were passin' be the apple tree the divil went up for an apple an' o' coorse he couldn't get down. He was there for two months, an' at last the smith let 'im down. The divil never came back again an' the smith lived happy ever afther.
- Collector
- Josie Kehoe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrickbyrne, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Henry Condon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 30
- Address
- Carrickbyrne, Co. Wexford