School: Coill Bheithne, Baile Mhistéala (roll number 11286)
- Location:
- Kilbeheny, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cathasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0513, Page 524
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- (continued from previous page)he was drawing it into the barn, he found an egg in each cock of hay, after that his hens stopped of laying eggs and they had no eggs until a year after that.
People often find dead calves in their hay. Once a man found a dead calf in his hay and the cattle who ate the hay got a disease and died. There is a story told of a woman who on May Eve was seen by a farmer to milk a drop of milk from each cow into a bottle. After some time discovered his cows had no milk. The woman was after making piseogs for his cows and taken away all their milk.
- Collector
- Margaret Flynn
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Coolyregan, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Lawrence Flynn
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Coolyregan, Co. Cork
