School: Tigneatha
- Location:
- Tynagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Caomhánaigh
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- (continued from previous page)after that he had a lot of butter.
- Paul Burke Blunacastle had a girl. When she used to be milking every evening she used to hear a woman singing and a child laughing. The woman was singing, "we will have the drops of milk for our supp." Then the girl told the man then he got a big wide bucket made. When she went out the next evening the child was crying. "Don't cry" the woman said "we will have Paul Burke's blood for our supper." The next morning he went out on a horse and fell of him and he got killed.
- Collector
- Chrissie Egan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Reaghan, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Michael Larkin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Reaghan, Co. Galway
