School: Cnoc Uí Choileáin, Mainistir na Féile (roll number 10107)

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   “One morning there was a man going to the fair and he got up very early.”

   

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   he handled the barrel he found it so heavy that he could not move it but after a while he did move it and found, on looking into it, that it was full of butter. The two women in pulling the rope across the river were "carrying" his butter.

   

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   “Tom Brown's and his wife ready to go to America, but two days before they were to go they went out walking and when they were returning they heard the Bánshee crying inside the ditch.”

   

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   Tom Brown's and his wife ready to go to America, but two days before they were to go they went out walking and when they were returning they heard the Bánshee crying inside the ditch. They came in home and when they told what they had heard Tom's sister advised him not to go to America for a few days more, and he did not. Instead of going to America on the day appointed he went to a sports meeting and he got killed.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)
   2. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Dillane

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tulligoline North, Co. Limerick