(gan teideal)
“In Kilfarney there once lived a woman by the name of Biddy Ross. She was a very bad woman and when she died the people said she went to hell.”
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Margy Manning, Mrs Purcell
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Bailiúchán na Scol
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(gan teideal)
“One night a few boys were sitting around the fire telling ghost stories and jokes. They were laughing and talking and not minding about anything when a knock came to the door.”
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Margy Manning, Mrs Purcell
Tras-scríbhinn
(gan teideal)
“In a certain field in Kilkenny there are now to be seen large clumps of trees and stony ground. Many years ago this field was ploughed for potatoes.”
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Margy Manning, Mrs Purcell
Tras-scríbhinn
(gan teideal)
“Many years ago a family decided to build a new house as their old one was ready to fall. They said they would build it in a certain field bot far from a rath.”
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Margy Manning, Mrs Purcell
Tras-scríbhinn
(gan teideal)
“In a field belonging to Hogans of Gaulstown there is supposed to be hidden treasure guarded by a white bull with three heads.”
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Margy Manning, Mrs Mary Purcell
Tras-scríbhinn
(gan teideal)
“A long time ago Ireland was full of robbers and in this part of the country there were three men who did a lot of stealing and hiding it from time to time in different places.”
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Margy Manning, Mrs Mary Purcell
Tras-scríbhinn
(gan teideal)
“One night as a man was coming home from town and he got very tired and he went into a house to rest. He left his horse in an old stable. When he went into the house he saw a little woman sitting at the fire and she was smoking a pipe.”
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Margy Manning, Mrs Mary Purcell
Tras-scríbhinn
(gan teideal)
“Once upon a time a young boy was very fond of dressing up as a ghost, and going out at night to frighten people. One night he went to frighten some young girls who were going home from a party and gave them a terrible fright.”
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Margy Manning, Mrs Purcell
Tras-scríbhinn
(gan teideal)
“There was an old man and he had a friend a priest, who was fond of him. When the priest had nothing to do he used to spend his time talking to the old man.”
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Margy Manning, Mrs Mary Purcell
Tras-scríbhinn
(gan teideal)
“It was always believed by the old people that they shouldn't touch any thing in the old raths because they thought the fairies would not like them to do anything even to the fence.”
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Margy Manning, Mrs Mary Purcell
Tras-scríbhinn
(gan teideal)
“In a farm near Kilkenny a big stone stood in the middle of the field and it was about fourteen curt. weight. The owner was going to till the field and thought it would be easier if the stone would be removed.”
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Margy Manning, Mrs Mary Purcell
Tras-scríbhinn
(gan teideal)
“In olden times people were very fond of taking their neighbours' property with the aid of the fairies. The thing they mostly wanted was butter.”
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Margy Manning, Mrs Mary Purcell
Tras-scríbhinn
(gan teideal)
“Ireland had many strange customs and beliefs in the fairies long ago. One of them was never to throw vessel water or rinsing water outside the doorstep.”
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Margy Manning, Mrs Mary Purcell
Tras-scríbhinn
(gan teideal)
“There lived in this parish an old cobbler and he was a very hard sleeper. Often he went to bed about eight o' clock and he would not get up till two or three o'clock next evening.”
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Margy Manning, Mrs Mary Purcell
Tras-scríbhinn
(gan teideal)
“There lived in this parish an old cobbler and he was a very hard sleeper.”
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Margy Manning, Mrs Mary Purcell
Tras-scríbhinn
(gan teideal)
“On our farm there is a field called páirc na gcapall so called because of the number of horses that used to be seen there during the pattern of Johnswell.”
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Margy Manning, Mrs Mary Purcell
Tras-scríbhinn