School: An Chathair Gharbh (roll number 13896)
- Location:
- Cahergarriff, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Criostóir Ó Dubhghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0277, Page 340
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- (continued from previous page)and they were both Ó Sullivan's. This is how it began: - There was a fair in Eyries and the uncle and nephew were together selling cattle. In the evening they were going home and there was a public house in the way and they went into it. On their journey home they got drunk and and a big argument arose between them They got two pistols and marked out a certain distance. Then they both fired and the uncle shot the nephew.
- One night a priest went on a sick call in Glen Mór and on his return he was surrounded by a big mob of fairies who wanted to stop his horse and harm him. Máire Ní Murchadha saved him but he had to promise her that he would never talk about her in the public.
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“Long ago a man was dying and he called his wife and asked her for one request.”
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- Líam Ó Murchadha
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Clonglaskan, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Tadhg Leháin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
