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School: Cluain Róiste (roll number 6959)

Location:
Clonroche, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Pádraig S. Ó Dubhghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0899, Page 205

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    (continued from previous page)
    About seventy years ago a crowd of fellows were going to a card school in Coolroe. They said that they would go back for candles to the village.
    One man named Jim Molloy said that he would wait in the yard until they arrived back.
    They told him to go into the stable. He went in and lit a candle.
    After he had been there a while a man came to the door and asked Jim Molloy to play a game of cards. Jim said he would. The game began and after a while Jim let one of his cards fall.
    He stooped down to get it and saw that the man had a cloven foot.
    He fled from the house in terror and left cards candle and all behind him. He met his friends coming back from the village and he told them all about the man with the cloven foot.
    Jim Molloy was very fond of playing cards but he never played cards after that.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Informant
    William Carroll
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    80
    Occupation
    Labourer
    Address
    Clonroche, Co. Wexford