School: Kilmuckridge

Location:
Kilmuckridge, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
L. Mac Donnell
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    and commenced to tell me a strange story of a nights happenings in yonder house across the way.
    A lady - a Mrs T---- had just been over to my mother to tell "that of all the nights and of all the noises last night capped them all"
    This Mrs T-- lived next door to the haunted house, and had the further additional remarkable news that
    "3 fine pigs were found dead in the sty outside"
    (These nocturnal noises and weird happenings were invariably accompanied by loss of stock)
    My mother's story was told her by Mrs T. seemed but to throw light as it were, on the lights I had seen - they confirmed my fears; and now the yarns I had listened to unmovedly for so many
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    W.J. Mac Donald
    Gender
    Unknown
    Age
    55
    Address
    Kilmuckridge, Co. Wexford