School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór

Location:
Knocknagree, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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    There was once a farmer in Tipperary on May Day he found he had not as much milk as he should have.

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    sons remained up on May night to mind the cows. About the middle of the night they saw a man coming into the middle of the herd and chanting a kind of magic called "Black Art." He and his sons bound him and brought him before a magistrate. The magistrate gave him two years' hard labour and said "Now my boy you will not be here next May Day to carry on your 'Black Art'."
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    There was once a woman in Mountcain who had made butter.

    There was once a woman in Mountcain who had made butter. She had a tailor on the table sewing for her. A woman came in and asked for a coal she got it and just as she had gone out the tailor put a coal of fire into a bucket of water that was in in the room. The same thing
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seán Ó Núaláin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Farrankeal, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Pádruig Uí Chonchubhar
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    77