Volume: CBÉ 0221
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0108
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“There is a hawthorn bush near Castlebridge in the Co. Wexford and is supposed to be haunted...”
(continued from previous page)harm was ever done to anybody. It appears that this man was killed on a very stormy night, and so he used to appear on every stormy night. I myself was passing that place one night and there was an awful wind blowing and it was very dark, and just as I was passing by this particular place the bell fell off the bicycle, this is the part of the bell that screws on. I was a long time looking for it before I got it even with the aid of the lamp. Not long after that I was passing by the same place and it was a very stormy night and it was awful dark. This time the bottom of my carbide lamp fell off the bicycle and I was a lot worse than I was the first night for this time I had no light(continues on next page)