School: Rathmeage, Hackettstown
- Location:
- Rathmeague, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Tuathail
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“One time there was a poor woman going the road with her children.”
Told by Mrs Mc Mahon Travelling woman she heard it from her mother she is dead about 49 years.
One time there was a poor woman going the road with her children. She went into a very rich woman and asked her for a bit of bread. She said "Go a way from me you are like a sow with a littler of pigs" This rich woman had a child borned and it had a pig head on it. It used to grunt like a pig.
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“There were protestants who lived up in Carlow...”
There were protestants who lived up in Carlow one day they made a pie like the Blessed Virgin. They had a son borned it had no legs no arms half a body. - Collector
- Sorca Ní Murchadha
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- John Foley
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“One night Mick Kennedy was coming from rambling...”
One night Mick Kennedy was coming from rambling as he was coming up our fields he heard dreadful crying when he came into the gap he saw the "Banshee. It was often said that the "Banshee followed the Moors and the Murphy's. These were my great(continues on next page)