School: Effin (B.), Ráthluirc (roll number 8333)
- Location:
- Effin, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Hannáin
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- Pat Maguire, Ballingaddy.Old Tale.There is an old man living in Ballingaddy and in his farm there are three wells. The people that were coming in for water were knocking the ditch of the road. So after a while he closed the three wells and one morning when he came out he saw the best horse he had dead, and there were two cows and an ass dead also.One morning he got up very early to go to a fair. He washed his face and when he went to comb his hair there was no hair in his head, and it never grew afterwards.
- Collector
- Pat Maguire
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballingaddy, Co. Limerick
