School: Urhan (B.) (roll number 12259)
- Location:
- Urhin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0275, Page 230
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- Once there lived in Eyeries beag a woman called Máire Ní Mhurchadha. She was taken away in the fairies. She would tell everybody when to build their house.
One night there was a man coming from the mines. He sat down to take a rest. A hound came towards him. The hound ran around the man two or three times. The man went home the next day. Máire Ní Mhurchadha met him, she said it was a good job that he did not strike the hound last night, that she was the hound.
- Collector
- Séan Ó Mhurchadha
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilcatherine, Co. Cork
- One evening Máire Ní Mhurchadha was coming from the Mines. She saw a cow in a field and she said that the cow was the same as a block of fir.
The cow died that night because it was a curse that was put on the cow. When the man went out looking for the cow the(continues on next page)
