School: An Gleantán, Lombardstown
- Location:
- Glantane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Colmáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0362, Page 204
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- A woman to whom there was a baby born, was taken away one night from her home. After three nights she came back to her baby and nursed it. She used to eat what her husband would leave on the table for her, and disappeared again, and she used to do that every night at a certain hour.
One night her husband watched her and he tried to keep her but he could not. She told him to go next night to a certain ford in a river and that she would be crossing the ford on the first horse behind a rider, and to grasp her quickly and pull her off and that she could come home then with him.
The husband went and did as she told him and he brought her off and she came home with him and they lived very happily afterwards.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Séarlait Ní Chárthaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Skarragh, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Michael Desmond
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Donaghmore, Co. Cork
