School: Knockbridge (C.), Dundalk (roll number 15102)
- Location:
- Knockbridge, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Margaret O' Hanlon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0665, Page 327
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- (continued from previous page)There are people living beside me. They are not living here long. They had to leave the other house they were living in. It was built on an old lios and they had no luck in it. Every year when the mill would come it would light in the haggard and light the straw and other things and they would have a job putting it out.
There is a lios near our house and there is a lone bush growing in it. There was another lone bush growing there and a man cut it. He had no luck after that. His cattle and his only child died and after a while he died himself. Long ago many people saw the fairies.
My uncle found something like a holy water font and human bones in an old lios. It was a grave and long ago not far(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Phil Mc Geough
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Newtown, Co. Louth
