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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceann tSáile (roll number 4572)

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Kinsale, Co. Cork
Teacher:
An tSr. De Pazzi
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0320, Page 118

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    also that she was to be dressed in a white robe. She told her nephew to walk to Cork and in a certain shop he was to buy the cloth and she would not die until his return. As he was coming near the house his aunt drew her last breath.
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  2. Joan the Hare

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    Joan the Hare was a witch. It was said of her she would change herself into a hare as quick as you turn your back and by the time you turned round again she would be a woman. She lived in a little cabin at the end of Bóthar an Chomhgair at Brown's Mills. There is a nook in the rock marking the spot where her botháinín was. It was knocked down about 80 or 90 years ago.
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Dhonbháin
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Athair Mach Suibhe
    Gender
    Male