School: Tomhaggard
- Location:
- Tomhaggard, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0877, Page 272
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - There are three roads leading from Tomhaggard village. The road that the school is built beside, leads to Kilmore village. And the two other roads lead to Broadway and to Wexford town.
There is an old story told about the churchpath which leads from Greyrobin to Tomhaggard. One night about twelve o'clock a man named Furlong was going home across the churchpath. He had a pack of cards in his pocket. When he was coming near a stile he saw a man standing under a tree. When he came up to him, he asked him to play cards with him. He took the cards from his hand and began playing. The man that Furlong saw was winning all the time. After a while Furlong said that he would go home. Then he went and when he was at the stile he saw the devil(continues on next page)
