School: Cill Mhic Eoghain (roll number 9848)
- Location:
- Kilmackowen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Hurdail
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- (continued from previous page)he came near the woman, she disappeared. He came out, and went away home.
At about one o' clock one night, there was a man coming from town. He came up the Cromphane road, and just as he was near Timothy Sullivan's house, he saw a woman. He saw her until he came near her, then he saw her disappearing. He got quite lonesome, and he was hardly able to walk. He went away home, and when he reached home, it was two o' clock. - It is not right to put an umbrella over a person's head inside in a house. It is not right to put your leg on a spade inside in the house. It is not right to give away anything May day because the luck of the butter would be taken away. You should not be the first in the Village to make the fire May morning because the luck of the butter would go out through the smoke. It is said if you break a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary O' Leary
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilmackowen, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Taidy Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Inches, Co. Cork