School: Scoil Mhuire, Béal Átha hAmhnais (roll number 11438)
- Location:
- Béal Átha hAmhnais, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: S.T. Ó Maolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0107, Page 168
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Local Fairy Stories (continued)
“There is the remains of an old house in Mr James Waldron's land, Devlis, Ballyhaunis, and in this house there lived a very old woman that used to change herself into a hare and suck the milk of the cows in the fields near her and the people thought it ver”
(continued from previous page)cows they set the hounds after her.
There was one man there, named "Yank" and he had a black hound, the best hound in the village, when he was let loose he kept behind the hare about two yards, but the other hounds lost sight of her.
Just as she was jumping in the window the hound caught her by the tail and pulled it off her.
After a while the man arived and they went inside and saw a woman with a spinning wheel siting on a pot and her working away.
One of the men told her stand up and as soon as she stood up they all rushed to kill her but she vanished.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Stephen Hunt
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Leithcheathrú, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Informant
- Mrs Cronin
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Leithcheathrú, Co. Mhaigh Eo