School: Revanagh, Coolcullen, Muine Beag (roll number 5259)
- Location:
- Reevanagh, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: S. Mag Uaildric
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0859, Page 335
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- (continued from previous page)into a pantry full of good things to eat and drink. There sat the Crones gobbling at the food and wine. Just then the door opened and in rushed the servants. The Crones vanished the servants seized poor Seamus and dragged him before the lord of the castle and when he heard that all his food and drink was gone he comanded Seamus to be hanged. So they dragged poor Seamus to the gallows and just as they were putting roap around his neck he remembered the red cap he was wearing and cried out. By Yarrow And my red cap too. Hie over to Irelend. Sure enough, up he shot into the air and sailed over mountains and seas and straigh. Old Madge was gone and a strange black cat sat in front of the fire.
- Collector
- Elsie Kehoe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Informant
- Mrs Mulhall
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 82
- Address
- Cassagh, Co. Kilkenny
