School: Rathmeage, Hackettstown
- Location:
- Rathmeague, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Tuathail
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(continued from previous page)the gate and where were you when I called you the third time I was coming up through the floor. The the two sons would no believe that that was their father and the Priest said if not I will leave him with you and the Priest was going away and they followed him and begged him to put him away and the priest came back and laid him under an apple tree and the tree never bore fruit for a year.
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One time there was a man and he used to resorth his locality In this part of the Country he used to earn his living by going about from house to house. He left a certain amount of money to some person to bury him when he died he died suddenly somewhere in a field and his remains were taken to the home that was in Shillelagh at that time and he was buried there and some time after it is told he appeared to the people that he left the money with and the oldest man in the house was so much frightened that he died soon afterwards and some of the people that was in the house got some neighbour to go with him to rise his remains in the night and bring him and bury him in his own ground in Ballymacrow and they had never a bit of truble with him afterwards - Informant
- Mrs Tyrrell
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Rathshanmore East, Co. Wicklow