School: Walterstown (roll number 10356)

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

   

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   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.

   

   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Alphonsus G. O' Kelly

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Monktown, Co. na Mí

   Informant

   John Byrd

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Farm-worker

   Address

   Baile an Cheantaigh, Co. na Mí