School: Kilkitt
- Location:
- Kilkit, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Baoighealláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0941, Page 088
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- One time there was a woman who had a baby.
When she would leave him in the cradle he would cry and shout for her to rock him. When she would leave the house he would rise up in the cradle and smoke a pipe.
She had tailors in the house and one day they told her about the child.
When she heard about him she got him on her back and went to Ballytrane to a friar.
He told her that the child was a witch, and to throw(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrickatee, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mrs Hamilton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrickaveilty, Co. Monaghan
