School: Rathmeage, Hackettstown
- Location:
- Rathmeague, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Tuathail
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0920, Page 262
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
Download
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Rathmeage, Hackettstown
- XML Page 262
- XML (no title)
- XML (no title)
- XML (no title)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
(no title) (continued)
“There were people who lived near Moyne...”
(continued from previous page)people of the house did not let her come in and they got back their profit.
(no title)
“A gentleman and a lady were to be married...”
A gentleman and a lady were to be married and the man did not believe in God or religion or hell. So one night he was going home and the lady accompanied him some of the way + when they were parting the man said "At all events their is no hell." The girl went to bed that night but she did not sleep. About the middle of the night she thought there was something in the room, after a few minutes something caught her by the wrist and said "There is a hell" Next morning she got up to her breakfast and she was reading the morning paper and she saw on it a terrible accident and it was her intended was killed and he was in hell. She had to wear a bracelet ever after to hide the burn on her wrist. - Informant
- Mrs Tyrrell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathshanmore East, Co. Wicklow
(no title)
“One time a man lived in Kidds field...”
Told by Mrs Tyrell Rathshanmore she heard it from her mother age 78. One time a(continues on next page)