School: An Bealach, Crosaire an Ghúlaigh (roll number 1131)
- Location:
- Ballagh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Diarmuid Mac Fhloinn
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- (continued from previous page)crime was remembered throughout Ireland. Infact the songs written about it were not allowed to be sung
- This woman was very fond of holding dances in her house and one Sunday the priest spoke about her off the altar. One day the priest was walking down the road and he had a little dog with him. As he was passing Clearys house the little dog ran out and all the hair gone off him and the priest turned back and he said, "The world will be surprised with the death you'll get", and since that she was sick and the husband said she was a fairy and they burned her and buried her bones in the ditch.
