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School: Kilmacteige (B.) (roll number 15500)

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Kilmacteige, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Cuirnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0173, Page 216

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  1. An Barra Stíol

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    In olden times there lived a witch and she worked her witchcraft by "An Barra Stíol" which was a strip of skin from the nape of the neck to the heel of a dead person. She would go to a graveyard at night and cut this strip off a corpse. Once she changed a hound and a hare into two rocks that are still to be seen in Carrowreagh.
    (From Thomas Howley, Carrowreagh)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
        1. hags (~139)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Neary
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilmacteige, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Thomas Hurley
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    80
    Address
    Carrowreagh, Co. Sligo