School: Sallybank
- Location:
- Drumsillagh or Sallybank (Merritt), Co. Clare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0585, Page 166
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- Milk and Butter stealing
A certain man had a lot of cows who used to have alot of milk. This morning the farmers wife said that the cows had no milk.He said that she was not milking them right and next morning he milked them himself,and he thought that some one else was milking his cows.This night he handled his gun and went out to where his stock were.He stayed by the ditch until about two o clock, and he noticed a hare coming towards him. He fired and wounded it. Early in the morning he went out and tracked the blood into a neighbouring house, he found out it was an old woman who used to change herself into a hare who used to milk the cows.
- Informant
- Mr James Nihill
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Oatfield, Co. Clare
