School: Claonar agus Carraig, Cill an Mhuilinn
- Location:
- Killavullen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Síothcháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0372, Page 202
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- (continued from previous page)to go home. He took no notice of her, but worked away, and she kept marching round the ring and kept threatening him. Before she was the full round of the ring he saw her stepping over it and advancing towards him. The ring was not complete, he left a vacancy that he missed with the Holy-Water and she was able to advance across it. She was some paces from him when he reached for his sword and he made for home with her in close attendance. He kept her at the point of the sword until he reached the village but when he reached his own door he stuck the sword in her. She told him to draw and stick again, and the moment he drew the sword she maimed him going up the stairs. He died next day. So ends the story of the treasure in the Hop-Yard.
- Collector
- Kitty Cox
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lackanamona, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Cox
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Lackanamona, Co. Cork
