School: An Chathair Mhór (roll number 13249)
- Location:
- Knockroe Middle, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0274, Page 212
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- (continued from previous page)door and when she entered the two twins were crying in the cradle and one of them said "You are away all day," in a crying manner. The mother made down a big fire and one of them said, "Spare the turf. It is long until the turf that's being cut today will be fit to burn." The mother answered and said, "When this will be red I will burn the two of you in it because you are only trouble to me since you were born. When the woman turned around from the fire the last she saw of the twins was going out the door. And they were never seen since.
- Collector
- Nicholas Harrington
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Charles Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
