School: Powerscourt
- Location:
- Powerscourt Demesne, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: P. Steere
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0913, Page 111
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- There is a farm at Blackhouse to the west of Enniskerry.
The owner at one time was a very respectable man named Hicks.
In this farm is a farm [field?] which is and was always thickly covered with furze bushes.
So Hicks seeing that some of his fences were broken down and his sheep getting out, thought to himself that some of the bushes on the rath would make good fencing.
He cut some and his saw broke in two and he still persisted in cutting them with a hook and then mended the fence.
Next morning he could not leave bed with severe pains in his back.
Some neighbours advised him to replace the bushes which one of his sons did and immediately the pains left him but he never cut bushes from the rath again.
- Informant
- John Booth
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Annacrivey, Co. Wicklow
