School: Cluainín, Granard
- Location:
- Clooneen, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0763, Page 100
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- (continued from previous page)an old hag sitting in the corner & she all bleeding. So the hare was in reality this old hag.
- Once upon a time there was a woman who was losing her butter. She met a clever woman who told her a plan to take to prevent the butter from being taken. She told her to put the Coulter of the plough under the churn and to stuff every air-hole in the house, to close the door tightly, and to shut out the lights from the windows, and no matter what happened not to leave the house until the churning(continues on next page)
