School: Rathmeage, Hackettstown
- Location:
- Rathmeague, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Tuathail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0920, Page 260
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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. (no title)
“One night Mick Kennedy was coming from rambling...”
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- Mick Kennedy
- Gender
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- Age
- 52
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- Rathnagrew Upper, Co. Carlow