Irish Ghost Tales (2015)
“Born during the time of the hedge schools in the early part of the nineteenth century, she was the only child of a well-to-do farming family. They lived in the townland of Colligan, which is not far from Clogheen in Tipperary.
Mary was not the type of woman you could call feminine; she was as tough as nails, almost six foot tall and built in proportion. She did the work of a man on her father’s farm without thinking twice about it. If there was one thing that Mary Hannigan was known for far and... wide it was her dancing. Spinning and whirling around the dancefloor, no man could match her. That is, except for one hefty lad and his prowess led him into a marriage with Mary, a marriage that was closely followed by his early death. How Mary came to be called Petticoat Lucy came about like this … There was a wedding in the neighbourhood, with drinking and dancing well into the night and through to the early hours of the morning. Mary was able to drink as well as she could dance and as she spun around in a drunken dance the buttons of her skirt caught on a nail.MoreLess
Mary was not the type of woman you could call feminine; she was as tough as nails, almost six foot tall and built in proportion. She did the work of a man on her father’s farm without thinking twice about it. If there was one thing that Mary Hannigan was known for far and... wide it was her dancing. Spinning and whirling around the dancefloor, no man could match her. That is, except for one hefty lad and his prowess led him into a marriage with Mary, a marriage that was closely followed by his early death. How Mary came to be called Petticoat Lucy came about like this … There was a wedding in the neighbourhood, with drinking and dancing well into the night and through to the early hours of the morning. Mary was able to drink as well as she could dance and as she spun around in a drunken dance the buttons of her skirt caught on a nail.MoreLess
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