School: Wicklow Convent
- Location:
- Wicklow, Co. Wicklow
- Teachers: Mrs McCall Sr. M. Martin
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- Once upon a time, Ireland was in a cruel state with witches. People had to darken up their windows, and keep their doors shut and they could not go out after sunset, anyone who went out would be killed by fires on the hill. One night Saint Patrick went to a door and the woman said she could not open it, and he said "Open the door" she said "I wont open it I am afraid of the fires on the hill everyone that looks at them drops dead".
"Open the door I tell you, and you will not die" So she opened the door and came out, he caught her by the arm, "Look up that fire and you wont drop dead" and Saint Patrick banished the witches and their fires
- Collector
- Brigid Vickers
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynerrin, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mrs Hanlon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Ballynerrin, Co. Wicklow
