School: Machaire
- Location:
- Magherintemple, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mary Ó Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1023, Page 141
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- (continued from previous page)had heard of her doing such a deed before.
It was believed that by cutting a piece of the woman's clothing, or by cutting a piece of the thatch above her door would prevent her from taking the butter from the milk again.
One night when Charles thought that Katie Kelly had gone to bed he went to her house and cut a piece of the thatch above he door, and it is believed that she never took the butter from the milk again
- Informant
- James O' Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Longfield, Co. Cavan
