School: Landsdowne (Cuar na gCoileach) (roll number 6091)
- Location:
- Coornagillagh, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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“At the Present Lake Hotel now (of course there was no hotel there then but a bóthan let to a dairy-man long since dead...”
At the Present Lake Hotel now (of course there was no hotel there then but a bóthan let to a dairy-man long since dead (up to 50 years ago) it happened about 80 or 90 years ago so the story goes.
A hare was seen at midnight & at dawn milking the poor dairy-mans cows. The Parish Priest had greyhounds then & he was sent for to kill the hare. He came and after a long chase the hare escaped. The hounds followed in full chase & as the hare was disappearing through the window of the dairy-mans house the hounds caught & bit her but she escaped. The Priest said the hare was in the house & he searched & searched & there in bed he saw a pool of blood near this old woman who lived in the house with the dairy man & his mother.
The Priest knew she was the hare & this is explained by saying she was a witch & could take any shape she liked. The Priest sprinkled Holy Water on the poor witch & she died soon after an honest woman.
- Collector
- Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- Jeremiah O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Male