School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0949, Page 092
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- One time there lived in Calliagh a woman named Kate Grimes. This woman could change herself into a hare. She would go round the people's cows in the shape of a hare and milk them. When she was in this shape she only could be shot with a silver sixpence. One night she was milking Mr. Mick Wood's cow. He shot her with a silver sixpence. He followed her into her own house and she was sitting in the corner bleeding. There was a verse made on her:
"Long live Philip McGaville
And may he live long,
For he keeps a black dog
To hunt Kate the witch
Across the White Bog"
- Collector
- Paddy Ellis
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 16
- Address
- Drumhillagh, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mrs Ellis
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Drumhillagh, Co. Monaghan
- One time long ago there lived in Rafinny a man who had two cows. One morning when he got up there was a cow in the field.(continues on next page)
