School: Creganbane (roll number 14079)
- Location:
- Cregganbaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Dáithí Mag Réill
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- (continued from previous page)when she would go into the house to stand in the door and say "Tún Mhuighe Árd dá doghadh." Then the women would run out and she told her to close the door tightly and when they would come back not to let them in. The woman did so. She stood in the door and shourt Tún Mhuighe Árd dhá doghadh. Out rushed the ten women and she bared the door tightly and went up to the fire and sat down. Shortly after they came back and wanted to be let in but the woman inside would not let them in. They turned away and the woman heard some one crying pitifilly and she knew it was the woman who saved her life the other women were killing. When they had gone their little(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pat Malley
- Gender
- Male
