School: Camross, Mountrath
- Location:
- Camross, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Heifernáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0826, Page 215
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“There was a man going home from rambling one night...”
(See Penny Journal,Vol I, 1842 P 236 )
There was a man going home from rambling one night and Bacacruad appeared to him at a Bridge called Poor Man's Bridge. Bacacruad was very rich. The man that saw him got his neighbours and went to Shanakill and went and opened his grave. They got the money belonging to the man.They took it to a Priest. The Priest would not take it.He told them to take it back and leave it where they got it.Bacacruad never appeared to anyone again.