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   Long ago there was a tower up in the hill of Ard Patrick. The tower was near the church yard and it was about thirty feet high. This tower was nicely built and every stone was shaped like a brick. This was put there by the hands of nobody because in the evening there was no sign of it there and when the people arose in the morning they saw the tower there.
   They said it was the good people that built it up. The tower was there for about thirty years and it disappeared again by night. This tower was built on a place where a battle was once fought.

   
   Informant: Mr. Nicholas Dwane

   

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2. Pishogues

   

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   People used to set Pishogues for butter milk and fool long ago. There was a man near Glanworth and he was giving milk to his brother, his brother's child used to come for the milk every evening. He was making butter and after sometime he failed to make it. He tried

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patricia Burke

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   15

   Informant

   Mr John Burke

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   46

   Address

   Ballynahalisk, Co. Cork