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School: Cnoc Luinge (C.) (roll number 11665)

Location:
Knocklong, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Siobhán Ní Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0510, Page 059

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  1. Kilfrush (continued)

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    graveyard marks the place. Some very old ash trees stand in it. Three hundred yards to the west of the graveyard is St. Colman's well and the water is very often used by people suffering from eye diseases.
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  2. The Horned Women

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    This comest to the north angle of the house cry aloud three times and say "The mountain of the fenian women and the sky over it is all on fire". And she did so. When the withces insdied heard the call, a great and terrible cry broke from their lips and they forthwith wild lamentation and shrieks, and fled away to Slievenamon, where was their chief abode, but the spirit of the well bade the mistress of the house to enter and prepare her home against
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    AT0501*: “The Fairy Hill is on Fire!”
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Curtis
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knocklong, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Mick Walsh
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Emly, Co. Tipperary