Scoil: Newtown, Dunleckny

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1. Folktale - A Ghostly Horseman

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   The folktale as follows was related to the pupils in Newtown N.S. by a senior standard boy named Andrew Byrne, Ballydarton, Fenagh, Bagnalstown, Co. Carlow. About a mile and a half from our school of Newtwon there is a town'sland called Ballydarton. In olden times the most of this town'sland was owned by a family called the "Watsons". At the back of the house in which this family resided there is a large field locally known in the district as "the Pleasure Ground". The members of this Watson family were famous huntsmen, and polo players. In the "Pleasure Ground" ther were some famous games of polo played in the old days, and in these games members of the Watson family were also prominent. It happened that one evening a great game was being played, and one of the Watsons were galloping madly after the

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   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Mary B. Doyle

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   An Bóthar Mór, Co. Cheatharlach

   Faisnéiseoir

   Andrew Byrne

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Baile na dTortán, Co. Cheatharlach