School: Muclach

Location:
Mucklagh, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
S. Ó Néill

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0805, Page 052

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One time a man was coming on a journey. he thought he heard some one churning. He was wishing for a drink of butter-milk and when he was coming home there was a mug of butter-milk left on the side of the road. He was afraid to touch it and when he went to bed that night he died because the fairies were vexed the he would not drink their buttermilk.

Collector
Teresa Walsh
Gender
female
Age
12
Address
Screggan, Co. Offaly
Informant
Mrs Walsh
Gender
female
Age
40
Address
Screggan, Co. Offaly
Language
English

Go into a graveyard and take up a skull with a tooth in it, and

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