School: Ballinacree (C.) (roll number 13966)
- Location:
- Ballynacree, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Eibhlín Bean Uí Chonnachtáin
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- About sixty years ago there lived in Hilltown an old woman named Nancy Skelly. She was a poor woman and when neighbours brought her some food she would shake some of it under the tables and the beds and say "May I take it, May I take it." Then she would go to the spinning wheel and spin it round and when it would creak she would be able to tell if she could take it.
- Collector
- Mairsil Ní Gabhann
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs William Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gneeve, Co. Cavan