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“On Sheen's green banks in days of old A dreadful fight was won.”

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Tadhg Díarmuide Ó Súilleabháin

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Cure for Mental Trouble

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shuilleabháin

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“When a dormouse walks over a cow the animal gets crippled.”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shuilleabháin

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“In our neighbourhood in Tuosist about eighty or perhaps a hundred years ago...”

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Eibhlín Baintreach Uí Shuilleabháin, Eibhlín Uí Shuilleabháin

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“To keep the fairies away from stealing or harming children the mothers washed them in "wine" and then the good people would not come near.”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin

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“My Grandmother God rest her soul often cure a burn from steam of Kettle or from boiling soup...”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shuilleabháin

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“Comh Uasal gach fear ar muir"...”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shuilleabháin

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“As A poor old Grandmother was dying she thought she had a very thin worn petticoat for the long journey...”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shuilleabháin

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“An old workman Flor O' Sullivan long since dead told me 40 years ago...”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Súilleabháin, Flor O' Sullivan

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“John Browne who told me about the shepherd boy on next page that an old miser and his wife had a dispute one Xmas night...”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin, John Browne

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“Not long since neighbouring man called to my house who had been absent from Mass the previous Sunday and I joked him about it.”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin, John Browne

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“My Mother's Mother died young having a full of young orphans to my Mother's care she being the eldest of the family...”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Súilleabháin

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“In 1898 or 99 I happened to be in school in school in Carysfort Park, Blackrock, Co Dublin (the present Training College was not there now)...”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin

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“My Father asked me once did I know why the McGillycuddy Reeks were so called and this is his explanation whether it is tradition or booklore I don't know.”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shuilleabháin, Ó Súilleabháin

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“An old man named "Jer Owen" O' Sullivan lived in a townland near here about 50 years ago and the poor man died...”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin

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“An old lady near here but in bed at the moment ill told me this fairy story by request:”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin

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“There is a certain herb growing which would cure a scale in the eye but shouldn't be plucked by human hand.”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin, Miss Katie O' Sullivan

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“Th night my mother-in-law died 22 years last August a terrible noise like thunder was heard in the yard outside.”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin

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“An old car man Jer Clance of this parish who was out late and early saw a woman dressed in plaid disappear...”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin

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