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    There is a hawthorn bush near Castlebridge in the Co. Wexford and is supposed to be haunted...

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    to look for the bottom of the lamp, for the lamp went out when the bottom fell off it. I was a long time looking for it and at last I got it, a good piece away form the place where it fell off the bicycle. I wouldn't care to travel on that road in the nights, especially if it was a stormy one.
    There is another place on that raod nearer to Castlebridge and it is also supposed to be haunted, or the fairies are supposed to have a patway straight across the road. There was a man one time left his home at about ten o clock one night to go to the shop for tobacco and he was never heard of afterwards. Some people say that he was taken with the fairies. About a couple of years ago, a motor car went in on the ditch at that particular place, and
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Date
    16 June 1936
    Item type
    Lore
    Language
    English
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script
    Informant