School: Hackettstown (St Joseph's)
- Location:
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: M. Ní Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0909, Page 383
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- One of the lords of Lisnavagh was building a house some distance from where it is now. There were a lot of men and horses in the district employed drawing stones from the Abby at Ecawa n bridge. One morning they were waiting at day-light to start their work when a little nun came towards them from the Abbey. She spoke to the men and asked them where they were taking the Abbey stones. They answered her they were bringing them to the new building. She said the forerunner of that building wont see it furnished and there will a death on the work every day. The men did not say anything about it being afraid their employment would be stopped and the work on until the house was ready for the roof. When Captain Bunbury was riding around looking at the work he fell off his horse and broke his neck. The work was never finished and the death told by the nun was a bird or a pigeon found by the men on the wall by the men when they went to work.
- Collector
- Eileen Molloy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mary Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Borough, Co. Carlow
