School: Roxboro
- Location:
- Roxborough, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Ruairc
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0258, Page 068
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- A man by the name of John Rafferty who lived in Castlemine was a great shoe maker. A man by the name of Larry Casey went to him to get a pair of boots made. This man had a forth and he used to cut bushes in it. The shoe maker told him not to be cutting bushes in that forth. He was in the fairies. He said he killed a woman who was washing a child under one bush that the cut. When the man went to look at his cattle that night he seen a lot of men burying a woman(continues on next page)
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