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School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)

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Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
(name not given)
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    what time is it. The fourth time she asks her "What are you edging your knives for" The hag replies "To cut the heads off your chickens"
    Mother: "What did they do to you"
    Hag: "They broke into my corn"
    Mother: "Why didnt you fence the gap"
    Hag: "Sure I did."
    Mother: "What did you fence it with"
    Hag: "With rags, bags, bottles and bones"
    Mother: "I am as high as the Castle of Cloone.
    Hag: "I am as high as the silvery moon"
    The "hag" fights the "mother" for the chickens. When she has them all caught she pretends to boil them in a big pot and she feasts sumptuously on them.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brigid Ní Longáin
    Other names
    Brigid Ní Longáin
    Delia Long
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Haggard, Co. Kilkenny
    Collector
    Delia Long
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr Edward Long
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    69
    Address
    Haggard, Co. Kilkenny