School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin
- Location:
- Davidstown, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Róisín Bhreathnach
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- (continued from previous page)knees into a house in Colvinstown where he died that day.
- Some years ago in Eadestown, where a stream of water was running, that divides two townlands, there was a man with a wheel in the water and he turning it round dividing the water and saying "All to me and none to Martin Doody".
A priest was passing and stood to hear what was going on, and crossed the ditch without the man seeing him. He gave the man a kick and put him into the water and said "There's something for you and none for Martin Doody". - Informant
- Mr Thomas Lambert
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Coolamaddra, Co. Wicklow
