School: Adamstown (roll number 3755)
- Location:
- Adamstown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: D. Curtis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0900, Page 087
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- I was coming home from James
Connor's, Oldcourt, one night from playing cards.
It was a terrible dark and windy
night, and as I went along under
the trees on the "Causeway" road,
branches and boughs of all kinds were falling around me. As I was coming down the Causeway hill, past the old Norman Castle,
I heard, as I thought, the pattering
of somebody in his bare feet behind me.
I stopped and looked behind me, and could see nothing, so I went on again and still the pattering continued.
I thought that someone was playing a trick on me, so I turned around suddenly and made a grab, and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary L. Hughes
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Adamstown, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- John Jourdan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Adamstown, Co. Wexford
