School: Baltrasna (roll number 4086)
- Location:
- Baltrasna, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shuibhne
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- (continued from previous page)headstones that were on the graves. He went home with them and put them in the kitchen for a floor.
That night the two brothers were in bed, and he was sitting at the fire.
The headstones stood on one end and the people that were buried, were sitting on them.
The man sitting at the fire went to the bed room, and they cried after him to leave them back, so he left them back that night.
The two brothers are living yet and the man that brought the headstones died in three days after bringing them. Gibney was the name of the family, to whom it happenend.
Written by Annie Flood, aged 14 years
Murrens, Oldcastle, Meath.
told to her by her Mother
- Collector
- Annie Flood
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Murrens, Co. Meath
