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School: An Tulach Mór (roll number 11047)

Location:
Tullamore, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Gearóid Mac Piarais
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0399, Page 121

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    heard a person walking to the door, and a brown-haired woman came in, and asked her for the loan of her pot to boil a goose. She gave her the pot, and she went off for Connor's fort. All that night Mrs. Lovett had no rest but hearing people outside at the end of the house, blowing fires all the night. The next morning the brown-haired woman arrived again, with the pot, and about three cups of soup, and a few pieces of a goose in it. Mrs. Lovett did not want to take it, but, the woman said, that she would cause great disaster in the house, if she did not take it, and she said that she would not be under any compliment to any human being. She said that she would not visit her at all,
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eibhlís Ní Chorradáin
    Gender
    Female