Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

Excerpt: ...village, disposed of their property, and quitted the country for ever. The story, however, is still fresh in the memory of the surrounding villagers; and often, it is said, amid the grey haze of a summer twilight, may the ghost of Rachel Higgins, in the form of a hare, be seen scudding over her favourite and well-remembered haunts. Footnotes 21 Dublin University Magazine, 1839. 22 Aghavoe