School: Cill Chothrach, An Sciobairín
- Location:
- Kilcoe, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Spealáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0294, Page 184
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- In the townland of Hollyhill there is a "Kill" where in olden times they buried children who were not baptised.
One day there was a poor man coming home from a bog and he had a basket of turf on his back. There was a resting place near the "Kill" and he left down the load on a stone and as he did so the was thinking how he would feed a family of ten children.
He was there for some length of time and just as he was going to go home, out came a little Rabbit with a yellow soverign in his mouth. He washed it in a pool of water and he put it up on a stone. He went back and brought out another and kept doing until he had twenty one out.
The old man was looking on and wondering how many more he was going to bring out. The next time out he brought nothing but took one back. When he went in the took the twenty more and went(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Keating
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Denis Keating
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
