School: Cora Finne (C.) (roll number 12908)
- Location:
- Corrofin, Co. Clare
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 148
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“One day a man was out hunting and he got a very bad cut.”
(continued from previous page)what used I put to a cut but the cobbler of the house, but he ment a cobweb.
- One night a man was going home to Kilnaboy from Corofin, and he saw this strange light. He sat down and turned his coat inside out, and the light dissappered he said "Well Jack you will not trick me tonight". But when was coming near his house, he saw the light and he thought it was the light from his own house, but it was Jacko' the Lantern. He put him astray, and in the morning he was found at the edge of a cliff, and he holding an Elder bush.
- Collector
- Mary O' Dell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilvoydan, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Michael O' Dell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Kilvoydan, Co. Clare
