School: Cill an Daingin
- Location:
- Killadangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0533, Page 372
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- Between the dividing line of this parish and Terryglass is a hill called Saddle Hill. It is a fairly high hill. It is in the estate that once belonged to a man named Colletin.
Near this Colletin's house a poor woman resided. She had a big, young family. Her husband worked at Colletin's house.
Occassionaly she herself used to work at the big house, so that she might be able to earn enough to buy bread and clothes for her poor children.
One very cold winter's day she went up and asked Colletin for a jug of milk, for her child who was sick in bed. He refused her the milk and told her to get out of his sight.
The poor woman went home broken hearted. She went to a nearby neighbour and asked him for a drop of milk, which he gladly gave her. He prophesied that something bad would happen to Colletin.
That same evening as he refused the milk to the woman Colletin was out(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Nellie D' Arcy
- Gender
- Female
