School: Cluainín, Granard
- Location:
- An Cluainín, Co. an Longfoirt
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Raghallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)who was taking the butter left down a kettle of water to churn. She came for the loan of the dash, but when she arrived they had the house closed up & she could not see in. They put an iron in the fire & they refused her of the dash.
She went back to her own house & returned for the loan of another article, but again she was refused. The third time she returned for the loan of another article, but on her return she fell in the field & died. The water she had put down to churn put her over-board.
According as the iron was reddening in the fire her heart was burning.
- Informant
- Mrs James Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Doire Chasáin, Co. an Longfoirt
