School: Straboe (roll number 12934)
- Location:
- Straboe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Bríd Nic Cormaic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0835, Page 163
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- Mr Gray was telling me that his father was telling him, when he was a young chap about twenty years ago, there used to be great sport with and old [unknown], which started from Derrygarron and came along and stopped at the old graveyard in Straboe.
Then it went inside the gate and ascended into the clouds, then it came down again and dissappeared into the ground.
All the lads in the country around would stand at the cross and watch it.
There were two little withered witches(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Theresa Daly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Gray
- Gender
- Male
