School: Liostuathail (B.) 1.
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Haodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 080
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- In Rathea there is a field which was never ploughed because of an old saying that whoever would plough it would be dead that day twelve months. A young man bought the field and himself and his workman ploughed it. The two men were dead that day twelve months.In Ballygrenane there is a ring in the middle of a field and no one ever ploughed this ring. One year a man ploughed it and the horse that ploughed it died a few days after.A crowd of people were playing cards in Duagh one night. A strange man came in and began playing with them. The strange man was winning all the money. After a while one of the cards fell on the ground and one of the players stooped to pick it up and it had turned into a horseshoe. After a while the strange man left. Peopl say that the strange man was the devil.
- Collector
- Seán P. Ó Dubhghaill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolnaleen Upper, Co. Kerry
