School: Tuar an Fhíona, Cluain Meala
- Location:
- Tooraneena, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Gearóid Ó Coindealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0647, Page 344
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- (continued from previous page)jumping around the kitchen. After a while the man told the woman to catch the cock and put him under the pot so that he wouldn't wake the child.
While the woman was putting the cock under the pot the man went out to see if there was anything wrong outside. When he came to the cow-house he found all the cows stretched out dead. As the man was coming in to tell the woman what had happened outside he saw his coffin across the door before him. About two hours after he came in he sat on a chair and died. It is said that if the cock was not put under the pot neither of those things would have happened.
- Collector
- Tomás Ó Dúnaighe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynamult, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Tom Walsh
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymacarbry, Co. Waterford
