School: Newtown, Borris
- Location:
- Newtown, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Broin
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- (continued from previous page)or any one else. The Saint went on his way and the man stayed working away. When he came to Marley he saw a man lying on the road asleep and an axe beside him.
He got so vexed that he turned him into a ball of fire and sent it flying through the sky. The ball of fire struck the tree that the man was up in and burned man tree and every thing that was beside it
It is said that the ball of fire descended through the earth. This story is supposed to be true.- Collector
- Lawrence Fogarty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballykeenan, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Thomas Lennon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Ballykeenan, Co. Carlow