School: Sceichín an Rince, Cloichín an Mhargaidh
- Location:
- Sceichín an Rince, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Domhnall Ua Cathasaigh
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“There was a teacher named Mrs Mulcahy, teaching in Skeheenarinky, N.S. She was lodging at Loughanna.”
She had a long journey to come to school. She had to pass a lios. One morning as she was one morning as she was passing, she walked very near the lios. Her leg got entangled in a root, it swelled up and she went home again and it got very sore. She could not get it to cure, a lot of doctors attended her, and they could do nothing for her. She wrote to her mother and her mother told her to get a poultes of black turf and to put it to her leg as hot as she could bear it, she did as she was told and after a few days it was cured.
- Informant
- P. Hyland
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Sceichín an Rince, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- One night a man was coming home from a fair, he was drunk, when he was as far as "Tuar Cross" he hit up against something. He opened his eyes and he saw a white woman standing before him. He said to her "what do you want there for", the woman was seen there every night, and she was never seen after that.
- Informant
- Mrs P. Hyland
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Sceichín an Rince, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- The Mitchelstown caves are two miles from the school. There are two caves. Lots of strangers go down into one of them, but no-one goes into the other. The cave they'd go into is called [?]. It is said that one day a black sheep came up with her lambs out of the caves and stayed three or four days grazing there. They went(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs P. Hyland
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Sceichín an Rince, Co. Thiobraid Árann