School: Ballyboghill
- Location:
- Ballyboghil, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: P.J. Connolly
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“There was an orchard in "The Forest" once owned by Mr Synes....”
(continued from previous page)them.They came to a house then and they saw a person holding a child out of the window but nobody was taking the child. The priest took it and knocked at the door. He could hear a woman crying who came out to the door, and said her child had died.The priest said "Is this not your child. The woman said "No" and she went up and brought down the dead child. The priest put it at the back of the fire and it turned into a log of wood. He gave her the other child and said "Always bless your child before you go to bed. This happened in Clonmellan, Co Meath.- Informant
- Mrs Finnegan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Murragh, Co. Dublin