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   They both went to the top of the hill and hey saw the dead boy playing football.
   The father of the boy passed that hill going and coming from the bog and he didn't see his son until the man showed him to him.

   

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   Told by Dennis Keating Hollyhill Age 74 years Written by Kathleen Keating There lived a family in Aughadown in olden times. The father died, and the night of the wake his son was trying to put his horse into the stable and he would not go in. He beat him and whipped him, but it was no use. He went in and lit a match. As he went in, four of the tallest men he had ever seen walked out the door and west the yard.

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kathleen Keating

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Dennis Keating

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   74

   Address

   Hollyhill, Co. Cork