Volume: CBÉ 0036 (Part 2)

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1. Hatheen's Tree

   

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   Hatheen's Tree
   In a field near the roadside at Ballintubber, there grew a large chestnut tree. It was supposed to be growing on a "fairy pa[?]" and on that account, no person would eat a branch from it.
   After some time the owner of the field died and the new owner sold the tree to a timber merchant. He sent two men to cut down the tree. So the moment it fell to the ground, a wind rose up out of it and blew with such violence that it went across the country in a straight line and blew down everything that came in [?] path.
   It blew the [?] bushes down in the [?] and the [?]

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   History Edit

   Date

   1929

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script