School: Newcastle
- Location:
- Newcastle, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Máire Ní Fhotharta
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0927, Page 187
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- (continued from previous page)which is in the vicinity. She died of starvation and exposure, because when the people heard of her dead husband's riches they said she was a scheming miser, and refused her alms. It is said that she saw an angel at Chapel River before she died. There is a cross carved in rock, where she died, and the mark of a foot where the angel stood.
On the night on which the murder and suicide took place the old people say you can see a figure dressed in white in the top window of the castle, and a ghostly light is seen in the lower one where the double murder took place.
- Informant
- Patrick Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Timmore, Co. Wicklow
