School: Gleanntán, Scairteach an Ghleanna (roll number 7563)
- Location:
- Cordal East, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Muiris Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0447, Page 303
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- (continued from previous page)smith said " they were". It is a wonder said he, "you don't make one good woman out of the two of them". "How could I says Leary. "I could do it then, says the smith, not to be listening to them fighting". Then they brought the two old women into the forge, and he told Leary to blow the bellows and he put them into the fire. Then he put them on the , and sledged them, and he threw them into the trough of water, and out jumped a fine foxy young girl. After that they advertised that they would make young people out of old people for one hundred pounds a person. Two days after a very rich old woman came to the forge and asked to be made young. Then they(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John P. Brosnan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockdown, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mr John Brosnan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knocknagashel, Co. Kerry
