School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 357
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“Once upon a time there was an old castle near Newtown-Sandes and it was called Sandes castle.”
(continued from previous page)the fields and there was no more seen of them and the marks of their legs are to be seen there yet. Before this castle was knocked there was a boy hunting in the night time and one night he killed a hare in the field next to the castle and he came home. The next day he cleaned the hare and he found it was not a right hare at all. They did not cook it at all. It was a witch of the castle that changed herself into a hare a piece after he got lock-jaw and died.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Meen, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Meen, Co. Kerry