School: Skerries, Athy (roll number 10975)
- Location:
- Skerries North, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: E. Tansey
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- There is a light seen at the townland of Skerries (Athy) Co Kildare about eleven oclock every night. It is a ball of fire. It appears on the main road bettween Athy and Kildare about four miles from Athy. It comes out of the ditch and moves slowly towards Athy for a distance of about twenty yards and then turns into the new plantation and disappears. My uncle James Berry met it coming towards him but it quickly disappeared. I saw this fall myself. My brothers John and Laurence saw the ball of fire too.
- Collector
- Patrick Berry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Skerries North, Co. Kildare