School: Rahavanaig
- Location:
- Rahavanig, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máire de Stac
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- (continued from previous page)man standing against the ditch. It was a bright moonlight morning and she was not a bit afraid. When she approached the man she saluted him, and he answered her back, and he asked her to nurse a child that was crying. The woman said she would and was carried in a gap and she saw a lovely slated house a bit over from them. Then the man told her when she would have the child nursed she would get a dinner of potatoes and soup and not to eat it, and she would be offered money for nursing the child and not to take it. When they went in there was a ray of cradles along the wall and one of the children was crying. There was an old man in the corner and he crying also, and some of the girls having only half their clothes on them. The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Mulvihill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Faha, Co. Kerry
