School: Landsdowne (Cuar na gCoileach) (roll number 6091)

Location:
Coornagillagh, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Eibhlín, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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    When a dormouse walks over a cow the animal gets crippled.

    When a dor-mouse walks over a cow the animal gets crippled. The owner should then take off his shirt & make nine knots of it striking the animal 9 times repeating each time In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
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    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
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      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
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    Eibhlín Bean Uí Shuilleabháin
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    In our neighbourhood in Tuosist about eighty or perhaps a hundred years ago...

    In our neighbourhood in Tuosist about eighty or perhaps a hundred years ago a child sickened & pined away and they began to think she must be "an iarlais" & their own stolen away. They decided to try to hunt her away by getting a shovel of gríosac & placing her on it and when she was getting too much of the burning d0 glaoidh sí amach in árd a cinn is a gutha
    "Misa Allsún Nú h-Airneid Ó Contae na Gaillimh.
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