School: Scoil an Chúrnánaigh, Caisleán Nua Thiar
- Location:
- Newcastle, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0488, Page 493
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- (continued from previous page)vessels they leaked it. The fairy woman cursed the old woman and all her good pans leaked. Her three good cows and two goats would not give her a drop of milk. When she put a cake of bread into the oven it fell through the oven into the fire and got burned. One day she went up to a neighbours house for the loan of a quart of milk and on her way she met a fairy woman. She had a pipe as long as a spade and there was as much smoke coming from it as from a creamery. Have you your kettles, pots and pans mended yet, "No" said the old woman, well I have them mended since you left your house. The old woman returned home and found(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glendiheen, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- James Benson
- Gender
- Male
