School: Hackettstown (St Joseph's)
- Location:
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: M. Ní Raghallaigh
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- Years ago there were a lot of things seen in Jones row. One night a man was coming home from a fair and he was drunk. He saw a snake hanging from a tree. It would not let him pass and it dragged itself across the road. He went home and he died that night. It was said that that snake was the devil. Almost a week after that another very good man was going the same road. The snake was there and would not let him pass. The man turned back and went home another way.
- Collector
- Philomena Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Richard Bulmer
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 41
- Address
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow