School: Effin (B.), Ráthluirc (roll number 8333)
- Location:
- Effin, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Hannáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0509, Page 066
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- (continued from previous page)it and they went to bed in the dark.
- There was a fairy-woman liviing in Newtown Co Cork and she was very wicked. She used to beat all the people going the road. One day she jumped into a trap-car in which a man was driving and he (he) struck her with a stick. She jumped from the trap-car in Newtown to Sporry in Effin.She went to the priest for penance and he told her to drain the sea with a bottomless cup. This she could not do so she went to the spot where she jumped to and drew out the shape of the cup and saucer on a stone and it is there from that day to this.
