School: An Cillín (roll number 16603)
- Location:
- Killin, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Eachlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1036, Page 275
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- (continued from previous page)size and he started to run home without waiting to fight.
There is also a stone in the Keelogs river which was, according to tradition, fired by a giant with his small finger.
The old people of this district know of a hag who lived in Inver once upon a time. When the people used to churn there used to be no butter on the milk and they didn't know what was the matter. On an odd occasion they used to see a hare running about. But then they noticed that it was always the same hare and thought of killing it. When the people were after it for a while it turned into a woman. Then they found out that she was a witch and that it was she who used to steal the butter. She lived in a hut in Inver and used also to steal small children.
There was another hag who lived in Bonnyglen and she used to steal fowl and lambs which she used(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Teresa Boyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumlaghtafin, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Anne Meehan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 77
- Address
- Drumlaghtafin, Co. Donegal
