School: An Ghráinseach (2), Cill an Mhuilinn
- Location:
- Grange, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Nóra, Bean Uí Lionáin
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- (continued from previous page)When they were digging for the gold the cock crew and at that moment a mad bull came tearing into the field. They made a circle and a cross with the black handle knife had a charm for spirits. It did not keep him out. They had to give up the digging and go away and they did not look for it any more. People still point out the spot where they dug.
Long ago the Danes were very rich and they hid the money and they told a certain man to mind it in life and in death. The old people say that there is money all over the country but we cannot find it. There is always a fairy and a bull minding it.
- The Hospital field
There is a field in Rahard, Ballyhooly, Co. Cork, call the "Hospital Field". Long, long ago, in the time of the famine there was an hospital in this field. The people who got the famine fever were brought to this hospital. There was a man who had a horse and cart and he used to bring the dead people to the old graveyard in Ballyhooly.
One day he was carrying the(continues on next page) - Collector
- Dolly Hayes
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- David Hayes
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Grange, Co. Cork
