School: Cill Cruim / Killocrim (roll number 17072)
- Location:
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Micheál Óg Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407D, Page 06_012
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“There was a man and he was marred first and they had a child and his wife died...”
(continued from previous page)him the next morning. So they watched him and they caught him and they made up the plan that his wife would go to bed and they would tell him that his wife was bad and to go for the doctor so he went for the doctor and his wife was talking to the doctor and he said that there was nothing to cure this sickness only the liver of the first cow that would come into the yard. This animal should be killed and to give his wife the liver so the first cow came into the yard and they killed her and no cure came from her liver. This held on until every cow was killed all to the white cow and the next morning she was to be killed(continues on next page)
- Collector
- A. De Stac
- Gender
- Unknown
- Informant
- Jim Stack
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry