1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Cilltighearnáin/Kiltiernan

School: Cilltighearnáin/Kiltiernan (roll number 11812)

Location:
Kiltiernan West, Co. Galway
Teacher:
S. Ó Beirn
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033C, Page 04_013

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033C, Page 04_013

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Cilltighearnáin/Kiltiernan
  2. XML Page 04_013
  3. XML “The Long Black Hand”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. The Long Black Hand

    Share Share Post
    About too miles from here their is a old church. Long ago their lived in that old as church a woman. She had a long hand, and a short one.
    The people round the place were very fraid of her. They would not go outside the door after sunset. Their was a man living near her called Andrew Lynch. He had
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margread Ní Aichthir
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs P. Guilfoyle
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    92
    Address
    Castletaylor South, Co. Galway