Volume: CBÉ 0190
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 269
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“There is a man living in Mayglas by the name of Thomas Barnwell.”
There is a man living in Mayglas by the name of Thomas Barnwell. He is eighty seven years of age. He was coming home from Wexford one night about sixty years ago, and he stopped to take a drink at a well. When he was done drinking he stood up and he saw a black object in the ditch beside him. It was about four feet in height. It was something like a man, but it had paws instead of feet, and they were as big as saucers. It had a great big open mouth, and great big teeth and it's tongue was out six or seven inches over the teeth. The moment Thomas Barnwell laid eyes on this object he was made stone blind and he was also as deaf(continues on next page)