There was a gentleman and his servant travelling around the country one time. They were going through Bru and they were on their way to Enniscorthy and the gentleman told the servant to go into the first house and ask were they on the right road. The servant went into a small house and he saw a tailor sitting on a table making clothes and a woman sitting at the fire. He asked the tailor was he on the right road for Enniscorthy but the tailor couldn't speak and started to make signs to him. Then the servant asked the old woman did she know were they on the right road for Enniscorthy and she began to make signs at him. The

plough. The child was listening with all his ears in the cradle. “You don’t need to buy a new plough, Daddy” says he “go up to Enniscorthy where there is a good smith and tell him to weld that plough- iron between a blue and a red flame.” Tom Murphy got an awful fright when he heard this talk coming from his son and he scarcely eleven months old.
He yoked the horse and drove into Enniscorthy and told the smith what the child had said This was one of the most famous smiths in Wexford at the time, and he wondered greatly at what the child had said. “Tom Murphy” says he “that is one of the greatest secrets of my trade and not many smiths in Wexford know it but myself, its my opinion its a fairy-

I heard another story about the fairies. There was a man living near Enniscorthy some years ago. He was a farmer. He used to wonder every morning why the horses in the stable would be so tired and life at all in them. He used to wonder at this for he used to feed them well. He didn't know what to do. One night he said to himself that he would stay up all night in the stable and watch them. He remained there until twelve o clock, and then he heard a great noise outside and then the stable door opened and in ran a whole crowd of fairies and jumped up on the horses ten or eleven of them on every horse, and galloped out in the stable door and away all in the space of a couple of minutes

that with the approval of His Lordship the Bishop, Mass was not again to be celebrated in Kilmachree Chapel. When the truth was known to them there was utter amazement among the congregation as up to now they thought that all the other doings were only rumours to prevent people from other parishes from crowding Kilmachree on Sundays. A meeting of the people of the Parish was speedily held and the result was that a deputation of the Kilmachree congregation went to the Most Rev. Dr. Furlong at Enniscorthy. He calmed their excitement and gave them much good and sound advice and impressed on them the obedience due to the Parish Priest. Another deputation followed but the result was the same, but many murmured and went into Wexford to Mass a distance of about five miles and not to Piercestown. When the Rev. P. Keating died in 1858 the people again appealed to the bishop, but always with the same result.

poor scholar travelling around the neighbourhood trying to earn his living and he happened to pass by Broon's place, and he saw the question on the pier unanswered. Now it happened that this Broon had a very ugly nose. So the Poor scholar wrote on the other pier.All the men between this and Naas wouldn't put a handsome nose on Broom's face.I got this story from my father and he heard it from a man in Enniscorthy many years ago. He thinks the man's name was John Murphy but he is not certain.

and dug away for about half an hour or so. Then one of them hit something hard. "Ah begob" says he to my great grandfather "We've struck money." So they dug away around the edge of the "hard thing" but it was so big they came to the conclusion that it was only a rock, for the place around it there is all rocks. They filled up the hole they had made and went home.
A couple of mornings afterwards as people were going to Mass they saw a great big hole in the ditch and down underground. It was in the Summer time and there was a track of a horse and ear as if it turned. After a couple of days it was people named Davis of Enniscorthy

grand lady and both of them were living in a palace. His mother wouldn't believe him at first but when he told her all his experiences she believed him. Jack then told her that his happiness wouldn't be complete until she would come and live with him at the palace.
You may be sure his mother gladly axcepted this, and went with him and the three of them Jack, his wife, and his mother lived happy ever afterwards.
This story was told to me by my father Thomas Butler aged 63. He heard it from an old man Fitzgerald was his name fifty years ago. Fitzgerald was a native of Enniscorthy.

There in the ruins of an old church in the graveyard, and it dates back to the time of Cromwell. It was a Monastery that time some people say. Cromwell men burned down the church, and there were monks living in it that time and they killed them, and they are buried not far from the graveyard. The cross that was on the top of the church is to be seen still in the graveyard. It is almost four hundred years ago since Mass was said in that church.
On the main road from Wexford to Enniscorthy there was a friary chapel somewhere convenient to the road. This was burned down also in Cromwell's time.

had dug for the gold and found it.
The man that owned the land in which the gold was found was named Woodcock, and he was a quaker. They buried the gold in the time of the Rebellion 1798 and when they died it was left to the Davis's. When they got the gold they started a big industry S. and A.G. Davis Flour Mills Enniscorthy.
There was a pier built in the hole where the gold was found, and it is to be seen to this day. It is on the very edge of the road and is about half-a-mile from my house.
This story is perfectly true. I got it from my mother, who got it from her grandfather, who actually dug for the gold.

You are a credit to yourselves , likewise to your nation home
For you were the true hearted Irishmen that the Saxon for
When you fought and fell for Ireland one hundred years ago.Chorus:-IV
Cheer uh your hearts my Wexford boys come join from far and near.
From Gorey, Oulart, Vinegar Hill, likewise from Monageer
And remember boghlaw Harvey, Father Murphy and Wolfe Lone
In whose grand array come see to day at the laying of the stoneChorus:-V
We fought with gallant Wexford, Enniscorthy and new hoss
We were led by Murphy and the boys from Shelmalire,Chorus:-VI
For to conclude and finish and think it only right
For true men like you men to gather here to-night
And to recall to mind Lord Edward how better was