School: Tobar Pheadair (roll number 4789)
- Location:
- Peterswell, Co. Galway
- Teacher: P.S. Ó Muireadhaigh
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- (continued from previous page)again and leaped out the window.
This was once a man who used to travel miles every night card-playing.
One night as he was returning home across the field, he saw a house where he thought he never saw one before.
He went in to see who lived there, and to his surprise he saw a lovely young man sitting at the table with a pack of cards.
The man called him by his name and asked him to play a game, and sure he said he would.
So they started to play and were playing until some cards fell.
When he was picking them up he saw the man had cow's hooves.
At that moment he fainted, and when he was right again the house and the man were gone and he was sitting by the wall.
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- There lived in the parish of Peterswell an old man about a hundred years ago. All the cattle he had were dying so his neighbours advised him to go to "Biddy Early". He went to her and he told her his story. She have him a bottle and told him to be very careful coming at a certain hill called "Cnocán na Bruighne".
On horse-back he travelled and when he reached the hill he got down off his horse in order to mind the bottle. But when he was(continues on next page) - Informant
- Mrs Connors
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Gardenblake, Co. Galway
