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1. Mary Belfast - The Woman under the Bridge (continued)

   

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   of £5 with a man about the house. The man would not believe so he brought him to see it. Just as they approached Mary was up the ladder to the top of the bridge. And again she repeated "I can fish trout or salmon for my breakfast from the roof of my house, fish from the hall door and drive a carriage over my mansion roof". The man won his bet. She had the real Belfast accent so these are some of her sayings. "I sat upon me door step, I am like a Queen in me mansion". In winter the tide youst come into the house and she would go about looking for lodging. Everybody loved to keep her because she had alot of old stories which she told during the night. When she was about eighty years she was sent to Kilrush hospital where she died.

   

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eibhlín Ní Aodha

   Gender

   Female