School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin
- Location:
- Davidstown, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Róisín Bhreathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0914, Page 456
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- Two men, named Jim Lamb and Joseph Byrne, were coming from Donard one night. The were taking a short cut across the fields by a Demesne avenue, called Coolmoney Avenue. As they were going along the avenue, they heard a sound in the wood. It sounded like a horn, and Byrne answered it. In a few moments they heard the same sound again, and Byrne answered it. Jim Lamb told him not to answer it any more say "You have no business interfering with anything that is not doing you any harm". But Byrne took no heed of what Lamb said. They heard the horn again and Byrne again answered(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr Arthur Hanlon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Knockaderry, Co. Wicklow
