School: Cill Mhuire (C.), Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 10395)
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máiréad Pléimeann
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- Years ago a young man named John Curtin who lived at Rock Chapel County Cork went to a card-party or gamble
as it is called. The prize to be won was a quarter of beef.. and it happened that young Curtain was the winner. He went home that night through the fields, and as he passed through a hedge he saw a man sitting on the ditch who had cow’s legs and he had horns on his head. As young Curtin passed him he held up a pack of cards in his hands and shouted “Come Curtin cut for deal.”
The young man passed on and went home; he fell seriously ill that night and died a few days afterwards.
- Collector
- Úna Nic Ghearailt
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glanlarehan, Co. Kerry
