School: Rathmeage, Hackettstown
- Location:
- Rathmeague, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Tuathail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0920, Page 223
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“One night my grandfather was coming home from Rathdangan he had the horse and car.”
(continued from previous page)alot of dead people were seen before that & the people from that day to this do be afraid comming down there.
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“One evening as a little girl was out walking late in the evening...”
One evening as a little girl was out walking late in the evening she saw that the sun was setting. She heard something behind her. She saw a lot of little people comming up to her. She stood on the middle of the road. When they came up to her she saw a big man in front & then she saw alot of little men behind him & they had a coffin in their hands. The big man took the girl in his hands & left her sitting on the ditch. Then he said to her "stay there till I will come back to you & the next time a funeral will be passing you keep out of the way." She stopped for an hour or two & she saw the people comming back again. The big man was in front again & he left his hands on the little girl & she knew no more till she found her self going in her own yard.She told the story when she went home. The people did not believe her & she said "you can go to the place to morrow evening & you will see the funeral." The people went the next evening & they saw the funeral again. The people said it was a fairy funeral & it was supposed to go to a grave every night.