School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)

Location:
Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Liam Ó Catháin

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 180

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A long time ago there lived an old woman not far from this place.

A long time ago there lived an old woman not far from this place. She had a lot of witchcraft or devilment. She used carry milk and butter from the people around her. At last the people did not want her at all. The nieghbours that were near her were very poor, they had only one cow. The cow was going to calve, and there was a little boy going to this old woman's house often. She told the little boy to watch the cow carefully and to tell her when the cow would have calved. Some other one told him to get a piece of cow dung and put it in the calf's

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Collector
Peg Barry
Gender
female
Address
Derry, Co. Kerry
Informant
Tom Sullivan
Gender
male
Address
Meen, Co. Kerry
Language
English