School: Walterstown (roll number 10356)
- Location:
- Walterstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Proinseas, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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“Peter Cullen, or Cullen the Slater was a slater by trade and he lived about Walterstown somewhere.”
(continued from previous page)Slater met Sir John Dillon and Sir John asked him "what he was crossing his land for". Peter said he thought it was a short-cut for Tara. Sir John said to him "do you know I am Sir John Dillon?". Peter answered and said "Well Johnny I hardly knew you". Sir John let him go on.Written by
Alphonsus G. O'Kelly, Monkstown, Brownstown, NavanGiven by
John Byrd (farm-worker) 55 years
Kentstown, bBownstown, Navan(no title)
“Johnny Mulligan, a carpenter who lived in the Drogheda Road, Walterstown, used to be ceilidhing up about Runahan (Kentstown Parish).”
Johnny Mulligan, a carpenter who lived in the Drogheda Road, Walterstown, used to be ceilidhing up about Runahan (Kentstown Parish). One night he came home along the "Glánya" and out into the Moate field. (This field is in Farrells Land of Walterstown - it is a little moate, not as big as the Danestown one of Kentstown Parish - on the same Drogheda Road). On a path on one side of the moate, he saw what was like a lump of hay until he got near it. Then it opened out and turned into a lot of little men. They had music. They hustled Johnny off towards the "Crooked Meadows". He kept pushing against them and kept making for Pat Byrd's house. There was a very, very high thick hedge then between the Moate Field and Pat Byrd's house. Mulligan jumped clean across the hedge and down into a dung-heap. He sank(continues on next page)- Collector
- Alphonsus G. O' Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Monktown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- John Byrd
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farm-worker
- Address
- Kentstown, Co. Meath