School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- An Leithead, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0463, Page 248
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- Long ago a cow belong to Dan Shea Laraugh died. They sent for a butcher and he examined the cow and said she died from a hurt so they cleaned the cow and salted her. One day a nother woman came in and they were talking about everything. After a good deal of time had passed the strange woman got up and said "I must be going home", but the other woman said to wait that she had a piece of meat in the pot, but the other woman said that she had only a man's head in the pot. When she looked there it was floating on the water. Then the strange woman said to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dermot Harrington
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Dan Shea
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 30
- Address
- An Láithreach, Co. Chiarraí
