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1. Máire Ní Mhurchadha

   

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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.

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Séan Ó Mhurchadha

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Kilcatherine, Co. Cork

2. Máire Ní Mhurchadha

   

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   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

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