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School: Baile an Gharrdha (B.) (roll number 2909)

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Ballingarry, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Dll. Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0499, Page 280

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    put the bone. When the woman went out the boy rubbed the bone to himself and he was changed into a hare. He followed the woman until they came to a field in which there were many other hares and a man training them. The man said that he could not train them any longer that night because there was a strange hare amongst them and that they should all go home. The woman was home before the man and she would not give him the bone. He was a hare for a week and then the woman gave him the bone.
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Irwin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Frankfort, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Michael Hartnett
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    32
    Address
    Ballynoe, Co. Limerick