School: Rathmeage, Hackettstown
- Location:
- Rathmeague, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Tuathail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0920, Page 335
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(continued from previous page)the hip a tore the hip out of her. When she seen she was over taking by the hounds she turned into a women.
- Heard from Hugh Higgins aged 46 Farmer Ardnaboy who heard it from his mother.
A boy and his mother lived together in a house. She was sending him to the shop one day for eyes livers & lights but he couldn't think of it so she said keep shouting it all the way along the road. He met a man vomiting in the ditch & the man thought he said "That you may throw up your eyes liver and lights" & he told him to say instead "Whats down may it never come up" & then he met two men sowing oats & they got out on the road when they heard him & they kicked him & told him to say "As much as we have this year may we have twice as much next year" so he went on shouting this & he met a funeral & he said "as much as we have this year that we may have twice as much next year". They kiced him around the road & told him to say Lord have mercy on all the souls of the(continues on next page) - Informant
- Hugh Higgins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ardnaboy, Co. Wicklow
