School: Rathnew
- Location:
- Rathnew, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: D. Ó Drisceóil
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- (continued from previous page)to have haunted this spot
- There is a little stream in Rathnew and it is called Carthy's brook because a great land owner by the name of Carthy used to live there. There is another place called the Mill Field because long ago there used to be a mill there and some of the thing belonging to the mill are there still.
There is another place called the Fury Brow because there is a big field and it is covered with furze bushs.
There is a field called the Rag Weed field because it is covered with rag weeds. There is another place called the Dark Walk because is a litte path way and it is about a mile and a half long and it is covered in with a lot of trees and bushes and it is dark even in the day time.
There is a place called the Black Hill because there were a lot of bushes on the hill and they were set fire to, and the hill is very black. - Collector
- Sean Mason
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Rathnew, Co. Wicklow
