School: Adamstown (roll number 3755)
- Location:
- Adamstown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Donnchadh Cuirtéis
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0899, Page 309
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“There was a man by the name of John Furlong who lived in Scullabogue (Newbawn Co Wexford).”
They called him Red John, because he wore a Red whisker.
He was visiting a cousin of his one evening, and stopped rather later.
In his coming home he had to pass a place by the name of Morans who kept a very wicked dog.
He was getten down off a stile, and there was a laugh of water under it. His foot slipped off the stile,and he bobbed into the laugh of water.
He then heard the dog coming like a roaring lion, and the devil ever such farth as come to him and he let bang.
He heard no noise from the dog, but he heard a stone gap falling and a gate in on the rock of Scullabogue. There is a high stone cliff up a piece from the gate, and the dog got on it, and began to keen with rejoicment for being saved.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas P. Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Thomas L. Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 87
- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Wexford