School: Aughrim (C.)
- Location:
- Aughrim, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean an Phléimeannaigh
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- A Strange Adventure.A few years (days) ago I heard a man named John Fleming telling the following.
He had been to a meeting in a house near Aughrim and when the meeting was over he started for home, cycling. All went well until he came to Ballymanus. There instead of keeping straight on, he turned to the left, crossed Ballymanus Bridge, turned left again and continued on up by Ms. Lynche's, left again along the road to Killaduff, down Redna, left again on his own road until he passed the house from which he had started, having completed a circle of at least 4 miles, and all as if he could not help himself. But he was not yet finished, he found himself doing the journey again and again, cycling always, and with no power to keep on his own road when he came to the turn at Ballymanus.
Next morning he came to and found himself lying exhausted in an outhouse near Ballymanus Corssroads.
