School: Landsdowne (Cuar na gCoileach) (roll number 6091)
- Location:
- Coornagillagh, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0464, Page 315
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“A woman lived in Cloherane about forty five years ago and her little daughter had a very sore knee.”
A woman lived in Cloherane about forty five years ago and her little daughter had a very sore knee. Every day the mother used go picking herbs to apply to the knee for a cure. A woman of the neighbourhood who was thought to be in the fairies told her not to pick any more so then she used bring a little dog and tie a cord to his neck and then to the herb so he used to pull it but soon after the woman pined away and died and the daughter got well. The woman was Mrs Healy and my grandmother. Mrs Sheu, Ardea, knew her well. A few years after her death the daughter being inside alone and her father and brother were gone out walking. It was yet early in the night when a woman walked in and sat in the seat. The girl made tea and they were chatting together but when the girl offered her the tea the stranger told her to spill it and then she would take it. The girl then got afraid so the stranger saw then and told her she was her own mother, but to tell her father to buy her a new shawl, and she went and was never heard of again.
- Collector
- Margaret Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrynamucklagh, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs John O' Shea
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Weaver
- Address
- Ardea, Co. Kerry