School: St Brigid's, Castleknock
- Location:
- Castleknock, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Mrs Thornton
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- Collector
- Rita Hughes
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Castleknock, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Mr Peter Hughes
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castleknock, Co. Dublin
- One night in the winter a man from the village was coming home from a house in which he had been playing cards, he was passing the fourteen haunted trees near Sandpitts.
His bicycle refused to go, he took the deck of cards out of his pocket and picked from it the(continues on next page)