School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)

Location:
Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Liam Ó Catháin
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    About seventy years ago there lived a girl over near Moyvane.

    About seventy years ago there lived a girl over near Moyvane. There was a churchyard near her house and she would go to milk the cows every morning, and every evening in the field near the churchyard. When the cow would be spanselled by her she would call the milk pail to her and it would come into her hand. One day as she was going to milk the cow's, the other women who were milking the cow's, saw her stretched in the field quite lifeless. They took her home and she kept the bed for two years. When she would get the chance she would go to the churchyard stripped naked
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Costello
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Coolaclarig, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Mrs Costello
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Coolaclarig, Co. Kerry