School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 268
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- (continued from previous page)turned into wines and spirits, they opened the basket and they drank all the wines. When the picnic party reached Gurteenadawn they left down the basket opened it and say the cripple they thought the fairies had turned the wines into a cripple they ran for their lives to a nearby house it was not long until a man came outside looking for the cripple
- About ten years ago in Ileigh a boy and a girl were getting married so when all were arranged and they settled the day they were to get married so when the day came The man noticed that his wife looked much older than what she was and he asked her age and she said she was really 48 years and then when they were married he asked her again and she said she was 54 and then said he would try to trap his wife some way so this night he said he would cover the salt before he would go to bed for fraid the rats might eat it and she said she had lived 64 years and she never heard of rats eat salt
- Collector
- Brigid Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gorteennabarna, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Ned Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Gorteennabarna, Co. Tipperary
