School: Maghcromtha (B.)
- Location:
- Macroom, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Deasmhumhna
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- (continued from previous page)sunrise and let them drink enough.
When she returned home that night the girl told her mother. The mother then next morning took the cows, and the daughter also. Before the cows went into the water she made her daughter go in and drink the water, and she left the cows in then.
The girl went to school next day, and met the woman of the 'lios' on the way as before. The woman was angry and said, "Ah! I will have you in spite of your mother, because at the first child you will have I will get you then."
But her mother put her under a spell "not to ever" have a child, so they were too clever for the woman of the lios after all.
- Informant
- Timothy O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Carriganimmy, Co. Cork
