Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 2)

Date
1936
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0220, Page 0212

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0220, Page 0212

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  1. (no title)

    There was a hare wan morning seen amongst the cows.

    ......It was the first of May. The man had a greyhound with him. The greyhound followed the hare on towards the graveyard, and when they came to the gate the hare bid him an early morning and disappeared
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Item type
    Lore
    Language
    Béarla
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script
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  2. There was a lane running from Muchtown down as far as Mike Donnelly's house. Well there used be a man seen walking along that lane every night.
    Paddy Byrne was riding a horse home along the lane wan night and he met this man. He got such a fright that he got in the bed when he got home, and he never got out of it 'till the day he died.
    He was buried in Kilcavan and he's there yet I suppose.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    There was an ould woman around here who used to cure everything with herbs.

    ....She used to use hemlock, foolrock, garlic
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.