School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór (roll number 1685)
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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“There was once a man whose cows had no milk when they were brought in in the morning.”
(continued from previous page)He asked the old lady to open the door. She said that she was in bed so he broke in the door. He caught her and pulled her out and her side was all torn. She was an old witch who had turned herself into a hare. He threatened to kill her but she promised she would never again do any harm to him. He knocked the old cabin and the cows had the usual supply of milk afterwards.(no title)
“In olden times it was the custom in the south of Ireland that no one was to ask anything or receive it from May-eve till the following day....”
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- Michael John Stapleton
- Gender
- Male
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- Patrick Stapleton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork