School: Clochar na Trócaire, Baile an Gharrdha
- Location:
- Ballingarry, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Sr M. Treasa
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- (continued from previous page)the hare disappeared. The hunters were surprised. They looked in the window and saw a witch bleeding.
- A gauy cow used to give milk to everyone during the famine times. If they kept milking her for ever she would still have milk. One day a woman was milking her when a little witch came into the yard and said "I bet you I can milk that cow dry." The other woman said that she would not. The little witch took a sieve and milked the cow dry. When the cow was milked she disappeared and was never seen again.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Danagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynarooga Beg West, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mrs Fitzgearld
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Ballynarooga Beg West, Co. Limerick