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   “There was once a man living in the parish of Adamstown.”

   

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   plough. The child was listening with all his ears in the cradle. “You don’t need to buy a new plough, Daddy” says he “go up to Enniscorthy where there is a good smith and tell him to weld that plough- iron between a blue and a red flame.” Tom Murphy got an awful fright when he heard this talk coming from his son and he scarcely eleven months old.
   He yoked the horse and drove into Enniscorthy and told the smith what the child had said This was one of the most famous smiths in Wexford at the time, and he wondered greatly at what the child had said. “Tom Murphy” says he “that is one of the greatest secrets of my trade and not many smiths in Wexford know it but myself, its my opinion its a fairy-

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   History Edit

   Date

   1935

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Tomás de Buitléir