School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin
- Location:
- Davidstown, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Róisín Bhreathnach
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- (continued from previous page)to eat, but he wouldn't take it. He told her he had money for her, that was owed to her, and he gave it to her.He left, and he was only outside the door when someone ran after him to say she had dropped dead.He came home and the cattle were alright. The man appeared to him again and told him he was going to rest.
_____________________Mrs Flood remarked that it was quite common at the time for the farmers "to sown half the field and graze half the field". Her father often told her that he spent many a night walking up and down the middle of the field, keeping the cows out of the oats.
- Informant
- Mrs Kate Flood
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Irishtown East, Co. Wicklow
