School: Tigh Molaga (C.) (roll number 12457)
- Location:
- Timoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shíthigh
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- (continued from previous page)It was first given as a cure to a Frenchman and it proved such a success that he thought it was ghost's milk. A hill situated to the went of Páirc a' Chuimín is called Cnoc na ngabhar. When a cow calves it is an old custom to have a lighted blessed candle to singe the hair of the udder of the cow.
A townland to the south-west of Timoleague is called Lislee or Lios na Laoigh in Irish, (the fort of the calves.)
One night as the moon was shining bright a man was walking along the Butlerstown road and as he was rounding a corner a mad sow ran out before him, he had a knife in his hand, and he tried to stab the sow and he drove the knife through the wall.- Collector
- Peig Ní Muirtille
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John O Brien
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Timoleague, Co. Cork