School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór

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   “(a) (Re lights) what my mother told you about the lights is quite true because as a young lad the lives were frightened out of us by those lights.”

   

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   lemonade. They (the two Michaels) met every night at the end of the bothaireen turning up to Hugh Twomey's and they both came to the hall up here, where the Temperance Society held its meeting about their football team and their matches and everything like that. They always left the hall about ten oclock and sometimes they might stop for five or ten minutes chatting and then Mick Cronin would go up the boreen past Hugh Twomeys house and on to the end of the boreen near Páirc a' locha (this is all on the old old road from Knocknagree through Nohoval to Duncannon. See Chart).
   He used to get in the gap there, across the field by the Fothrachs, down by that ditch and out on the road below at his own gate. When he left Michael Mickie it could not be later than 10:20 or at the very latest 10:30. He passed Hugh Twomey's house and they had light in the kitchen (not yet gone to bed). He went along the bit of a boreen and in over the black stick that was in the gap. He then went across towards the Fothrachs to go down by the ditch but after travelling and travelling he

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)

   Collector

   Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Príomhoide

   Informant

   Jeremiah Sheehan

   Gender

   Male