School: Loughagar (roll number 5696)
- Location:
- Loughagar More, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Énrí Mac an Abba
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0737, Page 418
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“Long ago if anyone wished anyone else dead...”
Long ago if anyone wished anyone else dead they would get a sheaf of oats and put a pin in every knot and every straw. Then they would wake it and bury it the same as a corpse. And as the sheaf of oats was withering the person who they wished dead was dying. And when the sheaf of oats was withered the person died.
- About the eighteenth century there was a fair in Castlepollard on 21st May. The parson sent his men to gather the tithes. A number of people started to fight as they did not want to pay. The soldiers read the right act for them. Then they went into the market-house and started to fire on the crowd. There were seventeen and wounded. An orange-man came out to look at them. There was a man crying over his dead brother. The orangeman said to him: "Now you have plenty of papish pork.
- Informant
- L. Mc Grath
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Crooked Wood, Co. Westmeath
