School: Allenwood, Robertstown (roll number 1712)
- Location:
- Allenwood, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Clúmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 029
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“A man one day was cutting down a lone bush for fencing on his farm in Grangeclare West...”
A man one day was cutting down a lone bush for fencing on his farm in Grangeclare West, when a voice said "Are you going to take the only bit of shelter I have in the world from me".
The hatchet fell out of the man's hand with the fright he got, and when he reached home there wasn't a hair in his head but was white, after the fright he got.
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- Collector
- Marcella Ennis
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Informant
- Pat Cleary
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 79
