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“There are three Ogham stones in Gleninchaquin about four miles from the main road and a holy well...”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin

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“There is a kind of quarry near our school called Poul a Phúca and the old people said that a fairy woman was seen here in the bad times.”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin

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“Anna Máthair Mhuire Muire Máthair Críost...”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin

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“Five old women lived happily together long ago...”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin

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“The pig sees the new moon the first night...”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin

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“Two women were minding my grandmother on her deathbed and in the middle of the night one stooped down to give her a drop of whiskey.”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin

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“A little pupil of mine went home from school as well as ever and did jobs like little ones in the country do in the evening.”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin

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“About eighty years ago or more a woman - one Mrs Shea of Ardgroom Castletown Bere, Co. Cork was married there...”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin, Mrs O' Sullivan

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“A man named Bernard Shea had a bakery in Kenmare long ago 70 years ago perhaps.”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin

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“One night this same labouring man was going to Castletown Bere fair withe his Master as was their want...”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin, Jeremiah O' Sullivan

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“If a pregnant woman crossed a path then the misfortune to see a hare or meet him worse again her child would be born with a harelip...”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin

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“Everybody knows the sure for the croas galar is the gander;s bill into the mouth nine mornings (both fasting) and fir the whooping cough the ferret's leavings.”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin

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“If a cow has twin calves misfortune come to the house that year moreover if they are bull calves.”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shuilleabháin

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“A man who lives in Drombohilly lost his wifr 9 or 10 years ago after giving birth to twin babies...”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin

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“At the Present Lake Hotel now (of course there was no hotel there then but a bóthan let to a dairy-man long since dead...”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin, Jeremiah O' Sullivan

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“Mrs Palmer aged 85 now living in Upper Derrinid Tuosist but who has had great losses lately as Sean O'Sullivan will know...”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin, Mrs Palmer

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“Another event that happened to herself when she was about 12 years or so.”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin, Mrs Palmer

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“Her sister and herself were stretched on the seat waiting up for their Father who was very late in coming home and their Mother was in the bed in the room with the baby.”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin, Mrs Palmer

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“We used be told at home not to get up early May morning or not to rise any smoke till the neighbours would all have their own smoke going first.”

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Eibhlín Bean Uí Shúilleabháin, Mrs Palmer

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