School: Ballyboy
- Location:
- Ballyboy, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Mrs Gath
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0808, Page 261
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- (continued from previous page)saint went through this field and some rushes were damaged thereby. The owner insulted and struck the saint and the saint said May every rush from this forth wither at its proudest point so from that day forth every rush is withered at the top.
(Miss Molloy Kilcormac)
There is a field in this locality between Ballyboy and Kilcormac and the "good people" appear in it once every 12 months. The man who owned this field stayed very late at work on a harvest night with two other men. He was stooking corn and it was near midnight. The field suddenly filled with little people dressed in red. They embraced every stook and then disappeared. The men were thoroughly frightened but the yield of corn was far beyond average that year.
Told by Miss Molloy Kilcormac
First told by Mt Edward Molloy (her father) to whom the incident happened about 20 years ago.
- Informant
- Miss Molloy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcormac, Co. Offaly
