School: Baile Uí Ghrádaigh, Ceann Tuirc
- Location:
- Ballygrady South, Co. Cork
- Teacher: N., Bean de Róiste
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0365, Page 135
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- (continued from previous page)stay up by night to guard the cream but it used to flow out of the tank in spite of them.Around the district of Liscarroll pishogues are worked a good deal.Where a pig's head is found no pigs can be kept on that land again until a few years are gone by, for it is said that the pishogues leave after a time.Once upon a time I saw pishogues worked near Liscarroll.As I was going up a passage and I met a butt of manure coming down against me without any horse under it. As I entered the yard I saw the shovels and spades walking around the yard with a red light under them. I saw the cows being put into the stall. When the people went into the kitchen for the buckets, and when they came out again all the cows were gone out again.Once upon a time there was a girl coming to the school(continues on next page)
