School: Mount Plunkett (roll number 8096)
- Location:
- Mountplunkett, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Bheirn
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- (continued from previous page)porridge and milk to the man. His father asked him where was the dinner. He told him he gave it to a poor man. On going home they saw the porridge and jug of milk not touched. Because it was his shadow he saw.
- Once upon a time there was a man coming home from a fair. He was cycling, he saw a woman in a field after ducks. He thought it was a woman living near by. After cycling a mile or so the woman appeared before him again. This time he knew she was no ordinary woman but a witch. When he got home he fainted.
- Informant
- Kitty Macken
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lecarrow, Co. Roscommon
