School: Cill Laichtín, An Caisleán Nua
- Location:
- Killaghteen, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Nioclás Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0489, Page 081
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- (continued from previous page)near a fort I passed a field full of fairies hurling. I walked on as quick as I could until I came t a house and I went in. The people in-side told me never again to pass there at night as it was very airy.
- In the famine years the people used be dying by the road-side of cholera. There used be depots where maize meal was given out to the people to feed them.
- The old people use to have great belief in their fasting spit to cure anything.If a person was sick the people would bring an old woman into the house to set a charm
- Informant
- Mrs Hanly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Barnagh, Co. Limerick
