School: Kilflynn, Lic Snámha (roll number 15033)
- Location:
- Kilflyn, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Hallmhúráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0412, Page 231
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- (continued from previous page)wail and cry of the bean sidhe after the shelter which had been cut away.
- I often heard father say that when he was young, and even he had grown to manhood, he was told by his parents , and he saw to it himself to have the couple of cows driven in an hour or two earlier than usual for milking on May Eve, that is the last evening in April. This was necessary to prevent the fairies from taking the milk from the cows. He feared very much meeting a hare that May Eve. If he met a hare he knew he was too late to save the milk. The hare was the fairy and she had already taken some of the milk from the cows. The cows had little milk on being milked that evening.Warding off the fairies.
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