School: Rathmeage, Hackettstown
- Location:
- Rathmeague, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Tuathail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0920, Page 340
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- (continued from previous page)told him not to worry the sheep were all right. She told him to come fasting next morning & she directed him the way, after a while the fog lifted & he reached home. When he was churning milk with his wife next morning she gave him a bit of butter made into a pill she said it would not break his fast, but when he went to the rath the lady flew at him & told him he had broke his word & she said she was enchanted in the rath for thousands of years and he was the first that spoke to her & gave her the chance of freedom & then she disappeared the fog lifted and he found himself standing outside the rath.One time a man removed two big stones that were at the entrance of the rath & cut down all the bushes & he was got dead there next morning. The people who have raths on their land never touch a bush on the ditch.
- Back from the Dead
Told by Jas Byrne Knockanooker
One time a friend of a workman who worked at Joneses died & this workman used to see him appearing to him nearly every(continues on next page) - Informant
- James Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockanooker Lower, Co. Wicklow
