Scoil: Walterstown (uimhir rolla 10356)

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1. (gan teideal) (ar lean)

   “Johnny Mulligan, a carpenter who lived in the Drogheda Road, Walterstown, used to be ceilidhing up about Runahan (Kentstown Parish).”

   

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   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   to his knees in the dung. He rushed to the door of Pat Byrd's House and asked to be let in for God's sake or else he'd be killed. Pat Byrd told him to go off to his own house as it was only a couple of hundred yards away. He would not go but pleaded to be let in. Pat arose and opened the door and Johnny fell in on the floor and lay at the back of it for the rest of the night. Johnny told Pat Byrd that a lot of men wanted to push him off for the Crooked meadows and that he pushed against them and then jumped the hedge. (People could never understand then how he jumped the hedge that was in it then). "I'll tell the rest in the morning" says Johnny. But even after, when Pat mentioned the event, Johnny moved away. Johnny was never known to speak of that nights happenings during the rest of his life and he never went to Ceilighe in Runaham again. He'd hardly have been 30 years of age, when this happened. The hedge was a very close grown hedge of about 15 ft. high. It was never clipped. It had full grown thorns on it.

   GIven by John Byrd (farm-worker), Kentstown, Brownstown, Navan.
   Written by Alphonsus G. O'Kelly, Monkstown, Brownstown, Navan.

   2nd February 1938, A.D.

   

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

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Alphonsus G. O' Kelly

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Monktown, Co. na Mí

   Faisnéiseoir

   John Byrd

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Gairm bheatha

   Farm-worker (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   Baile an Cheantaigh, Co. na Mí