School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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“Once a man was dying and his wife went to Biddy Early.”
Once a man was dying and his wife went to Biddy Early. She told her that every night at twelve o'clock horses used pass. She told her she must stick a black handle knife in the tail of the white horse that came last or pull a rib from his tail
So the woman stopped up all night and when they came she stuck the knife in to the white horse's tail and pulled a rib so she got back her husband- Collector
- Cáit Ní Chorra
- Other names
- Cáit Ní Chorra
- Katty Corry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
- Informant
- John Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Acres, Co. Clare