School: Ballinvally (C.) (roll number 932)
- Location:
- Ballinvally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Nic Shiomóin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0724, Page 126
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- (continued from previous page)Then they said "She'll be nearly dead in a month." It is a charity to do it." When they were gone Bob went back and told his wife about what he had seen. The two of them went down and took up the sheaf so that the person it was put down for would not die. Bob brought home the sheaf and took out all the pins. He said there were as many as a hundred in it. He burned the sheaf of oats.
2. The fairies have great power over cows and sometimes take away from them the power to move. The cow is then said to be "elf-shot". Gerard Fay of Cummerstown had a cow, once that was 2elf-shot2. She lay down in the stable and used to have to be lifted by a number of men to be milked. She was that way for several days until they sent for an old man named Thomas Colwell of Ringleboro, Drumcree. He came and handled and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Black
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sheepstown, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- John Black
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Sheepstown, Co. Westmeath
