School: Lurga, Patrick's Well (roll number 10317)
- Location:
- Kilcolman, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Bhroin
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- Story About Carrig O'Gunnel.Carrig O'Gunnell is an old castle, a few miles to the north of this school. Long ago a little girl used to cross Carrig on her way to school. Every morning she used to meet a woman. She told her mother about the woman. One day her mother had a sick calf. So she told the little girl to ask the strange woman for a cure for the calf. The strange woman gave her a bottle for the calf. When the little girl went home, her mother shook the mixture in the bottle on her daughter first, and then on the calf. Next morning when the little girl met the strange woman, the woman hit her a slap on the face. "I thought I was clever", she said, "But your mother was wiser than I was". If the mother had not shaken the mixture on the little girl, the fairies would have taken her.Recorded from Mr. Patrick Moore, KIlcoleman.23rd Feb. 1938.
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- Mrs Michael Sheehan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Briska Beg, Co. Limerick