School: Borris-in-Ossory (Convent) (roll number 7442)
- Location:
- Borris-in-Ossory, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Sr. Patrick
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- (continued from previous page)very fast until it reached the house but the window was stopped up. The dogs caught hold of it and took a piece out of its ribs. The hare ran to the door and the man came and went in. There was a witch sitting at the fire and a piece of his hips all torn and bleeding. That was a witch in the form of a hare that was sucking the cows.
- There was a man one time who used to make poteen. One day a certain man went to the door and asked him to tell him a story. The man said he had no story to tell. Then said the other man, " I will tell you one." "There lived a man one time who made poteen. A guard went to the door one day. The man's wife thought he was going to arrest her and she threw out the poteen(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Julia Breen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballaghmore Upper, Co. Laois
