School: Myshall (B.)
- Location:
- Myshall, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- Not very long ago I was on holidays at my uncle's, and one night he was telling me a very strange story.
It was about a very old witch that he told me. She lived in a small house, beside a small river called the Deirk, beside his farm.
According to the old laws of the district no one was allow[ed] to borrow anything on May day in the form of a match, or water, or firewood, or a candle.
The people had a suspicion of her being a fairy woman and on May morning a man went to the river for to watch the wi[t]ch.
After sometime the witch came out of her house with a bucket, but when [she] saw the man she went back again.
She returned in a minute with a bucket, and a can full of gold. She stooped down at the edge of the river to get a bucket of water, and the man fireed at(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Mullins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Myshall, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Daniel Mullins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolasnaghta, Co. Carlow
