School: Beanntraighe (B.) (roll number 15135)
- Location:
- Beanntraí, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Dr. Mac Carrthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0281, Page 085
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- In a district not far from Skibbereen called Gleann na Phúaca there lived a farmer who kept fourteen cows. For some mysterious reason his yield of butter was very small. Of this he complained to an old man in the locality, who advised him to take two swift hounds to his farm on a May morning. The farmer followed the advice given and on entering the field the hounds pursued a large hare that was sucking one of the cows. The hare escaped them but the hounds followed it to a hovel on the foot of Mount Kid, where as he entered, one of the hounds caught him by the leg and tore it but the hare escaped into cabin. The farmer thinking he had the hare cornered entered the hovel and to his amazement saw an old dying hag in a pool of blood on the floor. This hag had the power of changing herself into a hare and it was she was responsible for robbing the farmer of his milk. After her death the farmer had no more complaints about his butter yield and needless to say the farmer was not sorry for the old hag.
- Collector
- John Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Beanntraí, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mrs O Donovan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Beanntraí, Co. Chorcaí
