School: Johnswell, Kilkenny (roll number 3247)
- Location:
- Tobar Eoin, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: D. Ó hÉigceartaigh
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“One time a man named Jim Kelly had no sticks to light the fire. He went out to the rath in Rathcoole which was not far from his house. There he saw a bush and he cut it.”
One time a man named Jim Kelly had no sticks to light the fire. He went out to the rath in Rathcoole which was not far from his house. There he saw a bush and he cut it. He brought it in and lighted the fire and got his breakfast. It seened that a curse was on the rath and who ever did any harm in it someting would happed to him. When the man got up the next morning the only cow he had was dead.
- Collector
- Nicholas Hoban
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Jim Knox
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 25