Scoil: An Pasáiste Thoir (B.), Port Láirge

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1. Local Traditional Stories - Petticoat Loose

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Petticoat Loose was an unfortunate woman. She was killed on the road to Co. Kilkenny, and then she haunted it. She would not let a car pass. At last the people had to go to a priest and tell him to banish her off the roads as she was doing an amount of harm. So the priest went to banish her. He asked her what sin she had committed that damned her. She told him of many wrong-doings. He said that those did not damn her. Then she told him that she had killed her own child without baptism, and the priest said that that was what damned her. The priest said that he would banish her to the Red Sea. She said if he would she would not leave a ship or a steamer pass but she would drown. So he put her to the bottom of the Sea, making súgans of the sand. Nevertheless in many places in Munster her presence was

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   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   William Hearne

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mrs Kate Elliott

   Gaol

   Seantuismitheoir

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   An Pasáiste, Co. Phort Láirge