School: Baile an Mhuilinn, An Droichead Nua (roll number 16654)
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: S.P. Ó Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 367
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - About two hundred years ago there lived an old hag. She lived by herself in a little house under the bushes, and she could turn herself into a hare with her magic wand and run across the fields and suck the cows, and once when the farmer was coming for the cows he saw the hare and he set the dogs after her and as she was jumping in the window of her house the dogs caught her leg.The farmer was surprised and went in and there he saw a little old woman with her leg bleeding; and whatever happened, the farmer nor his dog were never seen again.I got my information from my mother; -
Mrs. Mary Gorry (age 49 years)
Hawkfield,
Droichead Nua,
Co, Kildare.Signed: - Teresa Gorry
