School: Shrule (roll number 7795/7796)
- Location:
- Shrule, Co. Galway
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)and there were plenty more rushes. The words were not out of her mouth when the old woman got as mad as fire and gave the girl such a slash on the feet and knees that she was nearly killed with pain. That night she got very sick and the pains came out through her knees, she was not able to sit or lie and she had to be put standing on the floor and you could hear her screeching and bawling far away. She told her parents she saw a heap of fairies and they were all riding on horses and they told her the day and how she would die. She was just five days sick when she died.
- (continued from previous page)Corrections 15-12-'38.
where, with her, he, an old woman,
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