School: An Churrach (Crogh), Árd Fhionáin (roll number 7911)
- Location:
- Curragh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Dubhshláine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0572, Page 362
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“Long ago a man believed in Piseogas.....”
(continued from previous page)sparrows and other birds came eating the cabbage. He went out and caught a fist of clay and threw it after the birds and all of them fell dead. He used to say some words but no one knew what he used to say. A couple of days after killing the birds two of his fingers were taken off.
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“A man was ploughing out in a field one day.”
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A man was ploughing out in a field one day. He went in to his dinner and when he was coming out from his dinner with the horses he saw men around the plough.
When he came up near the plough he couldn't see anyone atall and he didn't know was it down through the ground they went or not. - Informant
- Michael Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Coughlane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lodge, Co. Tipperary