School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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- (continued from previous page)they left the house and he had only been in it three months.
- After that old Murphy used to stay up very late in the night One night he heard a horse passing and he looked out and saw a queer persone riding on its back. So he went in to bed and in about half and hour after, The horse passed back with a child crying. Old Murphy told his wife to listen but she told him to lie down and rest himself. That was some one child they brought off to their forth.
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Chorra
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Acres, Co. Clare
