School: Tulach Cruinn, Inis (roll number 7708)
- Location:
- Tullycreen Upper, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Maranáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0601, Page 103
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Na Sidheóga agus an Bhean a Ghoideadar.
Once upon a time there lived a man by the name of Paddy Culligan.He was a married man and had one child .When the child was about a year and a half his mother died .After being two weeks dead ,she used come every night and put the bed clothes around the child when it was in bed.One night her husband saw her,and asked her 'who she was' and she said "she was his wife".He asked her "how did she come there"and she said "she used come to cover the child since she died"He asked her "could she come back again to her "could she come back again to him" and she said she could if he would go before her this night when she would be coming out a gap riding on a horse with a crowd of others".She said she would be the first one in front,and to be at the gap when she would be passing an pull her off the horse"
He went to the P.P for Holy Water and Blessed(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Brew
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Brew
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Tullycreen Upper, Co. Clare
