School: Clongeen (roll number 4652)
- Location:
- Clongeen, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Brian Ó Broin
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- (continued from previous page)A blessed well is near it, and it is called "hady's well."
- In Newbawn people say that a lot of unbaptised children are buried in a little nook, just where James Brown lives at present. Some people say that they saw a light arising from this place and going down to the churchyard. No children are buried there now.
- Collector
- Katie Doyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilbraney, Co. Wexford
- In Ballylannon there is a very old churchyard and the old Church is there for over a hundred years. The oldest grave in it is 1804. The ruins of the old church are still to be seen.
Mr. Leigh of Rosegarland has made it into a vault. It is not level but slopes towards the east, some of the tombs are made of iron and more of stone. It is said that one time long ago a man caught a hare upon one of the graves, and that man's spirit used to come back.
The hare was seen by some people since, and it was heard bawling(continues on next page)- Collector
- Edward Wade
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballylannan, Co. Wexford