School: Cross (roll number 13141)
- Location:
- Cross South, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mártan Ó Colmáin
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- (continued from previous page)would be good friends and keep her company. One day she locked up the little boy in the barn and hung down a big oven on the fire to roast the little girl. When the girl got her stooped over the oven she pushed the old woman herself in and put the lid on it. The little girl went out and released her brother.
They dug a hole in the ground in the wood and buried the old witch. They found a big purse of money after her and they lived happily together for some time.- Collector
- Jack Coleman
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 12
- Address
- Cross South, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Dominick Doohan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- Over 70
- Address
- Cross South, Co. Roscommon