School: Grangecon
- Location:
- Grange Con, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Ss Ó Maoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0916, Page 139
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One night a man by the name of Jack White was coming home from Dunlavin and he met with a man who was playing cards by himself and he asked him to play with him and he did so. Jack White was a great expert at playing cards. During the time a card fell and Jack White stooped to pick it up and he saw a cloven foot. He went home and would go out any more after dark.
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“Some centuries ago a man by the name of Fitzgerald was taken by the fairies and at the end of every seven years he rides on a horse which is shod with silver shoes.”
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- Sheila Nolan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Freynestown Upper, Co. Wicklow
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- John Cullen
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
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- Address
- Ballylea, Co. Wicklow
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