School: Clonmoney, Bunratty
- Location:
- Clonmoney North, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Henry Carroll
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0598, Page 352
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- (continued from previous page)went he entered he saw an old woman sitting down. She called to the doctor to come and take the lump off the fiddler, and to put it in a special room. When time was up he was allowed to continue his journey, and he went home as straight as a whip.
The musician had a neighbour who was similarly deformed, and when he had how his friend was cured he resolved to go and seek the same cure. He started out one fine night, and having reached the fort he heard the singing, and music and dancing, but not being a musician, and not having a fiddle he could not repeat what he heard. A Voice called him in, and as in the case of the fiddler he saw the old woman sitting down. She(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr William Collins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Cloverhill, Co. Clare
