School: Clochar na Toirbhirte
- Location:
- Lios Mór, Co. Phort Láirge
- Teacher: Sr M. Gráinne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0635, Page 210
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- (continued from previous page)An old hag who was supposed to haunt the districts of Lismore and Dungarvan lived on the mountains of Cnoc Maol Domhnaig. She was a wicked old hag. She was married several times and she murdered all her husbands. She hated men. When she died she haunted the road between Dungarvan and Clonmel near her birthplace called Colligan. Long ago no one would pass that way without having a bottle of holy water in his pocket. The old hag used to appear to travellers and ask for a lift. If she was refused a drive, she sat on the axle of the car so that the horses so that the horses could not draw the car. She was banished by a priest to the Red Sea. After doing penance in "Bay Lough" near Clogheen for some time she again gave trouble. It is said that a priest put as a penance on her "súgáns" to make of every grain of sand of the Red Sea. When she would have one big "súgán" made from all(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lios Mór, Co. Phort Láirge
- Informant
- Mr M. O' Gorman
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Fhinn Íochtarach, Co. Phort Láirge
