School: Hackettstown (St Joseph's)
- Location:
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: M. Ní Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0909, Page 398
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- One night an old woman was sitting at the fire. Some men were after going in to talk to her. There was an old face of a clock hanging on the wall. This clock never had gone for years. It came on for one o'clock and at one o'clock all of a sudden the clock struck one. The old woman rose up and said Pat is dead. Pat was her grandson who lived in Dublin. She also said that she knew when the clock would strike one it was a sign that Pat was dead. The next day she got word that Pat had died the night before at one o'clock. One of the men that heard the clock still lives in Hacketstown.
- Collector
- Annie Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Peter Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
