School: Beith Mhór (Beaghmore) (roll number 1209)

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   “There was a woman one time and her name was Mrs Mac Neill and she could turn herself into a hare.”

   

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   went in and asked where did the hare go to and the old woman's back was bleeding at the fire.

   There was a woman one time and she was out of a Mayo morning and the dew was on the grass and she was shaking her hand to and fro and saying "All to me". "All the year's butter to me". And there was a man listening to her, and he shouted the half to me for the year. He had as much as her during the year.

   

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   “There was a woman living at Lough Gowra one time, who used to take her neighbour's butter.”

   

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   There was a woman living at Lough Gowra one time, who used to take her neighbour's butter. The people thought it was the cows fault. But one morning a man watched her going to the lake and drinking three pints of the water when the dew was on the grass. When she came back she went a house in the townland. The woman of the house

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