School: Knocktoosh, Ráthluirc (roll number 12786)
- Location:
- Knocktoosh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Ní Ghruagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0490, Page 124
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- I live in Knockgloss and My Uncle John King
told me this story.
Once there as a woman and she had a colt and the colt was dying. She heard that there was a woman who used to set charms and so she went to the woman to set the charm and the woman got a bottle of holy water and then she got three dice and out them into a shovel when they were nearly burnt, she took them up and she put them into the bottle of holy water and she said. One is for the man if he over-looked the colt. One for the woman and one for the fairies if they(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary E. Curtin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockglass, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- John King
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
