School: Mayne (roll number 12433)
- Location:
- Mayne, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Margaret Percival
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0720, Page 104
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- (continued from previous page)they took him to the river and threw him in. He went off on a wave singing and laughing till they lost sight of him for ever.
The boy Larry remained at home for some time, during which time he never spoke much, to either Father or Mother. He was a real idiot until an uncle of his brought him to America where he died after a lapse of eighteen years. His home in Ballymannus is haunted ever since he was taken away, and I have heard men to say that in the month of October in the same place as the man was hunting they saw the little figures running in the shrubs the same shrubs in which the little dog was running in and out the day Larry was taken.
- Collector
- Joyce Stratford
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Finnea, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Blacoe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath
