School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Díarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0358, Page 392
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)and wouldn’t be happy unless they had a son “to carry on the name”. “They never made much of a little girl and their people didn’t either“.
2 When the expectant mother entered a house where food was being cooked or where food was being eaten she was always offered some and partook of it. “Didn’t you know Kit Cremin” said Biddy ‘No! Biddy’ I answered but I heard of her”. “Well God bless the hearers, when Kit was dying and during her life her tongue - God save the mark - always protruded between her teeth and the doctor had to cut away a part of her tongue when she was dead. I’ll tell you, why. When her mother went into a neighbour’s house in Shrone (Rathmore Co Kerry) before Kit was born the woman of the house - and she must be the devil of a woman -was frying a herring on the tongs and when she saw Kit’s mother coming she hid the herring under her in the chair and never offered a bit to the woman - and you know the woman smelt the roasting herring and got mind for it”(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Díarmuid Ó Múimhneacháin
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Príomhoide
