School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)by herself and the mother is to come along and ask what time it is, with all her chickens behind her and the children are supposed to be chickens.
The mother comes along for a couple of times asking the time until the third time and then the hag is edging knives.
The mother comes along and says.Mother "What are you edging the knives for?"
Hag "To cut the heads off those chickens"
Mother "What did they do"
Hag "They ate all my corn and knocked down my fence"(continues on next page)- Collector
- Ailís Ní Glionnán
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Goodwinsgarden, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- James Glendon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Address
- Goodwinsgarden, Co. Kilkenny