School: Scairt (B.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4126)
- Location:
- Scart, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Rinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0375, Page 223
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- Years ago before railways were known, in this country, people used to go to Cork with heavy loads, in horses and carts. Sometimes they used to have to travel during midnight. If they were on their journey to Cork they would pass a place called Bottlehill. If it was getting late they would be in dread of meeting an evil spirit, called Petticoat Loose who used to sit on the carts and the horses had no chance of pulling the terrible load.
Then the driver half dead with fright used to make the sign of the cross and she used suddenly disappear. Petticoat Loose had a sister who lived in Laba-Cally and was also a terror to the people.
There is still a stone in the bed of the river Funcheon which weights nearly a ton which she threw at her husband and killed him. She had a brother who lived in Carraigin na mbrointe. When he wanted to smoke the pipe she used to throw it to him from Laba-Cally. When he was finished with it he used to throw it to her again.
- Collector
- Nan Bowman
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Mr Bowman
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Kildorrery, Co. Cork
