School: Oulart (roll number 15419)

Location:
Oulart, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Séamus Ó hAilleacháin
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  1. (continued from previous page)
    stake down where the gold was in the field
    He told him to go for a spade. My Grand Father went + got it. When he came back the fairy had gone and the field was fiull of stakes.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. The people of Ballyvaldon, Blackwater, Enniscorthy, were called
    "They kill them and eat them people."
    This is how they got that name.
    Once a ship was out on sea.
    There was a lot of goods and money on the ship. As the ship was coming near Ballyvaldon a very bad storm arose and the crew of the ship brought it in at Ballyvaldon.
    The ship was not long in when the people heard about it.
    There were fishermen's houses about half a mile from the sea
    (continues on next page)
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Bolger
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Raheennaskeagh Lower, Co. Wexford