School: Glanworth (C.) (roll number 4838)
- Location:
- Glanworth, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Fhiachra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0373, Page 128
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- Story.Long ago when the men of Glanworth were caring to Cork, they would not dare to go outside the door until the clock would strike twelve, because on the Station Road there was a spirit seen which took the form of a sow.
But there were many men who would not believe in it and would go out before twelve and they would very often get a fright.
There was one boy of sixteen years who was going to Bally-hooley to meet his father who was coming from Cork. He did not come that night, so when the boy was going home, on his way he met the sow who followed him for a long part of the road.
The boy came to where he saw a small house and thought that there was somebody living in it.He ran in and the sow followed him and when inside turned into a man and crushed him against the wall and then left him. When the boy recovered he went home sick and died the following day. Written by: Josie Canning,
Told by: Mrs Ellen O'Sullivan, (79)
Ballinroe,
Glanworth.
- Collector
- Josie Canning
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Ellen O Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Glanworth, Co. Cork
