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“A man named Micheal Hayes was coming home from a neighbour's house one night.”
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Mary B. Kelly, Willie Kelly
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“A man named Micheal Hayes was coming home from a neighbour's house one night.”
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Mary B. Kelly, Willie Kelly
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“Once upon a time there was an old rath in which there used to be fairies.”
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Joseph Bradley, Kitty Bradley
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“There was a light seen in Mr John O'Gorman's field nearly every night.”
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Nellie Crean, Tom Mc Donald
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“About a hundred years ago two fellas used to be in the habit of rambling to a certain house in Newtown (Adamstown, Co Wexford).”
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John Martin, Micheal Martin
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“There was a wake in Hayestown, Taghmon, Co Wexford, Bantry a very long long time ago.”
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John Martin, Micheal Martin
Hayestown Little, Co. Wexford
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“In the Co Wexford there is a lane on the Adamstown road known as Newtown Lane.”
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Mrs Katie Mc Gee, Peggie Mc Gee
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“One time not very long ago, there lived two ould persons, Dick and Biddy at one side of Taghmon.”
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Mrs Katie Mc Gee, Peggie Mc Gee
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“There is an old graveyard on Mr Byrne's land (Doonooney Adamstown, Co Wexford).”
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John Lacey, Maureen Cleary
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“There is an ould stone in Mary Foley's ditch on the Coolnagree side of the road.”
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Alice Murphy, John Lacey
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“There was a certain man going home from Adamstown, and he met a girl coming down the Leap road one night.”
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Alice Murphy, John Lacey
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“There were protestants lived in a house in Ballybrennan where Mr Deacon now lives.”
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Alice Murphy, John Lacey
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“There is an ould house in Ballybrennan.”
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Alice Murphy, Patrick Kiely
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“There is a stone standing out of a piece from the ditch in a field in Coolnagree and another stone out on the road.”
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Alice Murphy, John Lacey
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“There was a man by the name of John Furlong who lived in Scullabogue (Newbawn Co Wexford).”
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Thomas L. Doyle, Thomas P. Doyle
Scullaboge, Co. Wexford
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“There was a wake held in an old house one time.”
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Maureen Cleary, Michael Casey
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“Long ago an ould man be the name of Tom Byrne and his wife Biddy lived in Doonooney.”
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Martin Kelly, Mary B. Kelly
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“There was a man be the name of Quirke who lived down in Macmine.”
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Alice Murphy, Patrick Fitzpatrick
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“There was often a black dog seen over on a path someplace about Kellystown.”
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Alice Murphy, Patrick Murphy
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“There was often men with tall red hats seen in Roche's rath Assegart Foulksmills.”
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Alice Murphy, John O' Brien
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“There was a priest one time who lived near Ballymitty.”
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Alice Murphy, Patrick Murphy
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