School: Cluaineach (C.) (roll number 11774)
- Location:
- An Choill Ramhar, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chlaimhín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0170, Page 0376
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- (continued from previous page)When the man arrived home the following day he told Bridget about the great cow he had got that could give them gold. When they asked the cow to give them gold. She could not
Bridget was very vexed and she sent out the man the same night and told him to build his house and not to return home for the red man.
He has only at the place where he was to build his house when the little red man came out before him and gave him a stick and told him say "turn around stick." On his way home he went to his wife’s sister’s house again and told them before going to bed not to say "turn around stick" but they did and the stick turned around and began to beat and kill everybody in the house and they promised to give back the cow if he would stop the stick and he did and they gave him back the cow and Bridget and himself lived happily.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Christina Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Choillidh, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Swords
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Cloonagh, Co. Shligigh
