School: Athgarvan, Curragh (roll number 13350)

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   struck it for it stopped running and seemed to pull itself along with great difficulty. He thought it would probably die in a ditch and he did not worry about its fate, he stayed on to mind the cows but nothing further happened. The father found the place where the hare had been shot and he followed the trail of blood towards a little cabin where an old woman and her daughter lived.
   The old woman had the reputation of being rather clever at piseróga, but that morning she was in bed yelling with pain. “What is the matter with your mother”, said the old man to the daughter. “She got a colic during the night”, said the daughter, “and she is very bad with it.” “I know the colic she has”, said the young lad who had followed his father, “it was I gave it to her, and there is the blood on the floor."
   Doctors were few and far between there but nearly every parish had a “knowledgeable woman” who made up ointments and lotions which she called “plasters”. The old man sent one of these dames to the hag of the piseoróga. The daughter at first refused to admit her but the old lady in the bed was in such agony that she made the daughter let her in. The “knowledgeable” woman said she found a gun shot wound in the others thigh!!

   

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   History Edit

   Languages

   Irish

   English

   Location

   Kilmaley, Co. Clare

   Collector

   Bríghid Bean Mhic Niocaill

   Gender

   Female

   Occupation

   Múinteoir