School: Killyfargy
- Location:
- Killyfargy, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Ó Mórdha
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- (continued from previous page)man was now getting richer and richer so one day he invited a party and the parish priest was one of the guests. When the feast was going on in the parlour the cat appeared and jumped up on the priest's knee and immediately the priest let a screech out of him and threw the cat off his knee and hit her. Immediately the cat left and ran away. From that day on the man's luck turned and he lost everything and before long he was as poor as when he started.
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- Collector
- Michael Moore
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John O' Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 70
- Address
- Lisnalee, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mrs O' Neill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisnalee, Co. Monaghan
- One time a man went to the bog and when he was cutting the turf he came on a long thin stone and says to himself, "this will do rightly for barring the door at night. He brought the stone home with him and he was in the best of humour. When he came home(continues on next page)