School: Clochar na Trócaire, Clanna Caoilte (roll number 7651)
- Location:
- Clonakilty, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Treasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0311, Page 276
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- (continued from previous page)locked her children into a house and then burned the house children and all. She used appear to people on the road in the shape of dogs, pigs and other animals. She used to go into carts and very often the horse dropped dead while she was inside. There is a bush at Fisher[?] Cross in Ardfield under which she used to sit and no leaf has ever grown on that bush since. While she was alive nobody would go out after twelve o'clock at night for fear of meeting her. A priest banished her out in the ocean for seven years.
- Collector
- Mary O' Leary
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonakilty, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr J. Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clonakilty, Co. Cork
