School: An Bóthar Buí (B.), Áth Treasna (roll number 16396)
- Location:
- Boherboy, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0355, Page 085
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- (continued from previous page)everything was changed to that eye of Nelly Connor.
Instead of the lovely lady there was a wrinkled old hag in the bed. The bed was all rags and when her work was finished and she was returning through the hall the ladies were withered old women and the men little humpy creatures. When she went outside she then saw with one eye that she had been in the Doon Fort. She again mounted the white horse and was taken home, but with her right eye which was the one she rubbed the ointment to the grand horse was her own plough but Nelly never let on the man about her eye.
Some time after Nelly Connor went to the Knocknagree fair and there she saw with her right eye the man who rode the white horse. She followed him to see what he was up to. He came to a very nice looking girl and he stuck a rush up her nose. The girl could not see him but Nelly Connor(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pat Mac Auliffe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Boherboy, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Mac Auliffe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Boherboy, Co. Cork
