School: Rathnew
- Location:
- Rathnew, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: D. Ó Drisceóil
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- (continued from previous page)started running. The man followed them for a long time but they got away from him and hid in an old tree from where they could see him. He stood and began shouting.
Then he made some signs and disappeared. The two men got down and went home very much frightened.
The next morning when the man's wife got up. She found him and her son dead.
Then in a good while after that two other men went to look for it. The same man appeared to them and did the same thing. they went home and in the morning were found dead. No body went to look for it after that.Joe Kearney
Rathnew
13 years 7 mths.
- The following story was told to me by my Uncle, Joe Marshall Rathnew.
There was an old house in Newcastle and there was supposed to be treasure hidden there. One night a man dreamt about it and he(continues on next page) - Collector
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