School: Ringville, Slieverue (roll number 6621)
- Location:
- Ringville, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Síle de Paor
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- On the top of Tory Hill is the Devil's Chair. People make a visit to Tory Hill on the second Sunday in July picking hurts.
- Informant
- Ellen Barry
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 86
- Address
- Rochestown, Co. Kilkenny
- The first twelve days of April are generally bad, wild and harsh like March.
There was once a widow who had one cow. She was very old but managed to survive all through the harsh winter to give a little milk to the poor widow. When March set in she got sick. The widow felt that if March had gone and April set in her cow would live. On the 31st of March the cow was alive and the widow's hopes were high. But march borrowed twelve days from April. On the 12th day the cow died.
This is another story:-
A polly heifer was sent on her(continues on next page)