School: Ballynacargy (B.) (roll number 1731)
- Location:
- Ballynacarrigy, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: E. Mac Óda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, Page 446
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- (continued from previous page)let the little man ride. The little man told him that if he put the whip in his mouth crossing the first jump he was sure to win.The race started and the little man put the whip in his mouth and the man backed him well and he won.When the race was over the little red haired man would not take nothing and said. "I am the man you fet at the fort." and at these words he vanished.There is a stray sod in Bannon's field of Rathmore. One night as Christy Bannon was out counting the stock he stepped on this sod and he thought he was crossing the one ditch all the time.But in the morning he found himself(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Slevin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Miss Bannon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Rathmore, Co. Westmeath
