School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)
- Location:
- Thomastown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Dubhlaine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0576, Page 375
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- One day a woman was walking on the road and she saw a frog crossing the road. The frog was going to have young ones and the woman said for the fun of it "Send for me when you will want me." That night a knock came to the door that she was wanting so she got up and went away. It was into a fort she was carried and when she was going in she thought it was a grand house. The she was shown into a room and she thought she saw a lovely girl and a baby in the room. Then she gave the woman a box of ointment to rub to the baby. Then the womans eye got itchy and she put up her hand that the ointment was on. Then she saw an old woman in the bed with big long teeth hanging out of her mouth what she took to be a young girl. Then when she was coming out she saw nothing but frogs, rats and everything uglier than each other but she passed no remark but went home and she made a lot of money after that. And any cattle(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick O' Dowd
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moatquarter, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs O' Donnell
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Moatquarter, Co. Tipperary
