School: An Góilín, An Sciobairín (roll number 5656)
- Location:
- Goleen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: P. Ó Meádhra
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“I heard old Fr Lucey saying that his father before him lived in Meathaduine.”
(continued from previous page)every day & his mother tried all the doctors in the place to cure him.
At last she took him to a [?] Skibbereen.
The woman used be going with the fairies. T'was no friend of yours did that to you said the man, but I cannot tell you anything to night, come back tomorrow and I'll tell you what I know. He did and the weaver[?] examined his leg. You went into an island says the man I did says Jer. and you came out in a sail boat" says he. Jer said he did. You jumped out of the boat onto a rock says he. Jer admitted that he did.
Well says the weaver there was a foxy woman watching you & you did not see her twas she who wounded you. I cant cure you now says he because you did not come to me in time, but I'll take the pain out or it, & you will have no pain in it anymore but you'll be always lame in it.
He always had a short leg ever after