School: Esker
- Location:
- An Eiscir Mhór, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: M. Ní Ghríobhtha
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- (continued from previous page)They are all beech trees and are all the same height.
There is a ring all round the trees. Near the trees is a stile and a black man is supposed to have been seen there. A soldier was shot there long ago and he walks round the trees every night.
On the other side of the road (the road) there is a big wood and down at the end of it a ball of fire rises and goes across the road and up to the clump of trees. The place where the fire rises is called the brick yard.- Informant
- Joseph Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Droim Cáithe, Co. Uíbh Fhailí