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School: Cromadh (B.)

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Croom, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0506, Page 737

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    up into little boys and girls they were all bald. There was another one coming on and the poor woman was awfully afraid that the child would go like the rest of them. One day a strange woman came into her and while she was eating a bit they were talking and the strange woman told her to build a room in a certain place in the yard and to have her child there. Her husband built the little room for her because he wouldn't get peace or ease otherwise, and the child was born there. When it grew up it wasn't bald.
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    There was this man who used have his cows grazing near a fort. They used be milked there and there was one of them that used spill her milk every evening. The man made up his mind to milk her himself. He did so this evening and twas near the wall of the fort. While he was milking he heard a child crying in the lios and the sound of a woman's voice talking and saying that as soon as the cow was milked by - the man himself - that the child would have enough. He spilled the milk there and then and the cow never spilled the milk afterwards.
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    Near Cloneen there was a rich man whose wife died on the first child. The child lived and the man got a woman to mind it, but after a while he married again and the new woman hunted the nurse. There was
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    2. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Daithí O Ceanntabhail
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Múinteoir