School: Ferns (C.) (roll number 13267)
- Location:
- Ferns, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Stás, Bean Uí Mhuimhneacháin
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- (continued from previous page)marks stayed on the floor and although it was scrubbed and scrubbed the stain remains still.It is also said that the room in which Butler O'Brien was waked is now barred up and no one allowed to enter.There is a path way in the Palace Lawn where some Bishops are supposed to walk up and down every night saying their Office.Tradition says that the ghost of Butler O'Brien is seen riding on a white steed by the Abbey every night
- The day on which Butler O'Brien was shot the sky darkened and it thunder and lightning started, the like of which was ever seen before or since.
