School: Barrachadhbhile, An Sciobairín
- Location:
- Bauravilla, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0293, Page 349
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- There is a field in Cooraganive where unbaptised children were buried. Lights were often seen there.
There was a certain man with his wife and his two children living on his farm.
This man ploughed this field which was not the correct thing to do as any person who did it would have bad luck.
One night his wife was up late ironing clothes when a tap came to the window. She quenched the light and just then the door flung open.
She fell in a faint and when she recovered she saw a small man sitting on a chair
He said that as a punishment for what her husband did her child would die and for fifteen years the grass would remain untouched and that no crop would ever grow in that field.
It so happened that the child died and the grass remained untouched.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James O' Donovan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cooragannive, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Con Donovan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cooragannive, Co. Cork
