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School: Tullybrack

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Tullybrack, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
F. Maguire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0963, Page 024

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    family, had placed them there the previous night.
    But always she remembered the warning and took nothing and next morning she was left back safe and sound where she had been sitting the previous evening.
    Pat Tom is dead now and Biddy is dead but their children still live there and now they a kind of deny it all but no one gives any heed to the denial.
    That is not be any means the only story of being brought by the Pooka but it is the one I know best.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    F. Maguire
    Gender
    Unknown
    Address
    Tullybrack, Co. Cavan