School: Powerscourt
- Location:
- Powerscourt Demesne, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: P. Steere
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- In PowersCourt Deerpark is a well called Edges Well.
This well is said to have strange effects especially in children.
Once a boy rambled up through the park and darkness coming on he lost his way. He stumbled around the well and being thirsty took a drink and then fell asleep under a bush nearby.
As he slept a small man wearing a red hat appeared and ripped a bit out of the boy's tongue.
In the morning the boy awoke and not knowing that anything was wrong soon found his way home. His parents noticed something wrong. He could not speak properly and never again could do so. Ever after this boy was known as Dummy Edge.
- Informant
- John Booth
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Annacrivey, Co. Wicklow
