School: Cuileann Uí Chaoimh (B.), Sráid an Mhuilinn (roll number 4440)
- Teacher: Ruaidhrí Ó Cadhla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0359, Page 158
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- There is a story told of two women who were returning from Millstreet one night they were walking when they reached the bridge called Droichead Stac on the boundary between Rathduane and Ballydaly. They happened to look behind them and they saw a big dog about as big as a donkey. They hastened on with the strange animal following. Sometimes he appeared small and sometimes big.
A man came to Islandbrock riding a horse one night and he went into a house where there was a nurse and he carried her away. He said there was a child being born at his own house the child was born and she was rubbing ointment to the child and she put her hand to her eye and instantly she saw. She was in Doon fort and the white horse was a plough. She came home and she went to a fair in Millstreet afterwards with three more girls and the same man appeared in a hotel but no one saw him but the nurse and she could not see him too only with the eye she rubbed(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jerry Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathduane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Bridget Nolan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Rathduane, Co. Cork
