School: Boulavogue
- Location:
- Boleyvogue, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Énrí Tréinfhear
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- (continued from previous page)79and he saw a man turning the hands of the clock the wrong way & ever after the clock went wrong.
Mary Coleman,
Legnalough, Monamolin, Gorey, Co Wexford.
[My father Mr M Coleman - aged 45 yrs - told me this]
- One time there was a man going down to Clondaw in a jennet & car. A black dog came up beside him & he tried to put the dog away. He would not go away so the man threw the stick at him & the dog disappeared. The man got out to look for the stick & he struck a whole box of matches. He could not find the stick so he went home & came back the next morning & found the stick with every match he struck on top of it.
James Gahan,
Carrigeen, Boolavogue, Ferns, Co Wexford.
This story was told me by : -
Mrs Mary Gahan (35 yrs)
my mother - Collector
- James Gahan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigeen, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mrs May Gahan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 35
- Address
- Carrigeen, Co. Wexford
- One time there was a wake in Oulart & there was a man named Tim Sullivan coming from it. Ashe was crossing the he saw fairies hurling & he went over to them. The fairies gave him a hurley & he began to hurl & he scored a goal. Then the match was over & the fairies carried them away to a hill & buried him & he is to be seen in his own(continues on next page)
