School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0949, Page 067
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- There was a woman and she was a witch and she could turn herself into a hare. One day the huntsmen were hunting and they asked her to do a ring and they would give her a stone of meal. Then she turned herself into a hare and went round six townlands. When she was going into the house the dogs tore the side of her. When the huntsmen went into the house she was bathing her wounds.
- Long ago there was a plague of rats in the time of Noah's Ark. They used to eat the feet off him. He asked God for some means to exterminate the rats. The tiger sneezed, the lion growled, and there jumped a cat out on the floor.
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- Collector
- Patrick Mc Carvill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Drumhillagh, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Carvill
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Drumhillagh, Co. Monaghan
