Scoil: An Pasáiste Thoir (B.), Port Láirge

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1. The Cursed Field

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   In the immediate vicinity of Arthurstown, Co. Wexford there is a field called "The Cursed Field".

   Now how this title came to be applied to this particular field is a rather remarkable story which many people still alive can substantiate.

   A poor widow named, say, Mrs. Mc. Carty, was the occupier under the tenancy of the then Lord Templemore who of course transacted all business with his tenants through an agent.

   Now this agent whose name was, let us say, Mr. Scamp, cruelly evicted the poor widow who got into arrears with the rents. Although great pressure was brought to bear on Scamp, he nevertheless put the poor woman and her few belongings on the roadside. He demolished the miserable abode in which she lived, on the field of course.

   It is said, she knelt in

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   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Suíomh

   Colmán, Co. Loch Garman

   Bailitheoir

   Patrick Quigley

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Faisnéiseoir

   P. Quigley

   Gaol

   Tuismitheoir

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Gairm bheatha

   Garda (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   An Pasáiste, Co. Phort Láirge