School: Ballyfin, Mountrath (roll number 15537)
- Location:
- Ballyfin, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Giolla Fhionáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0833, Page 180
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“Two men had a row one night when they were coming home along the road.”
(continued from previous page)better able to fight than the other man. So the other man that wasant able to fight said that he would have revenge for him when he would die. The man died after some time. One day the other man was walking up the road when a big barrel came out of the ditch with a long black tail. Then it began switching the man with the tail till he went near his home. The the barrel disappeared. Then the man went into the kitchen and fell weak. He stayed in bed for two days and died.
- Collector
- John Gilligan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knocks, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Mrs Gilligan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocks, Co. Laois