School: Cluain Uamha (C.) (roll number 12828)
- Location:
- Cloyne, Co. Cork
- Teacher: E. Geeleher
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- (continued from previous page)when she went to get the potatoes the cupboard was full of them.
- When the soldiers were hunting Our lord they met a dearg - a - dale and asked him did a man pass that way. He said "indé indé." They followed Our Lord along the road. He went into a field and turned into a lamb. Then the soldiers passed on and missed Our Lord.
A dearg-a-dale is a black thing which you often see on the road-side in Summer.
When it ever meets a Catholic it turns up its tail at them because it hates them - Collector
- Mary J. Walshe
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Quirke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloyne, Co. Cork
