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School: Tiercahan

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Tircahan, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
P. Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0968, Page 448

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    Ells are supposed to be very unlucky. Few fishers would interfere with them good or bad. A woman called Mary McGuire bought an eel in Swad, and as she had a basket full, with her, she stuck it inside her shawl tied to her waistband. Coming as far as Reynolds, she got weak. The good man of the house ran out to her and took the shawl off her to bring her too. What did he see inside but the eel twisted all round her waist, and squeezing her to death. He got it off her, cut in three parts, and was giving it to her. But shed have nothing to do with it more. He put it into a
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