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   “A respectable gentleman came from Co Wexford to Rashanemore...”

   

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   time but he started the next day to the same plan for to do his work at the same hour with his pair of horses and his plough and he wasn't well started till the same little worman came acrross the same way tot th syile and she came up to the stile and she knocked it down and he said he'd go down and put a stop to this so when he went down the woman disappeared and the stile was down so the man had to come back and unjoin his two beasts and when he went home he got in to bed and he never got out of the bed until he died and his two beasts died in the stable.

   My mother was telling me about the same house where the banshee family lived and they were sitting around the fire of a summer

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   • James Neill