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School: Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 10956)

Location:
Oileán Ciarraí, Co. Chiarraí
Teacher:
Tadhg Ó Céin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 472

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    out that she was not going to school and asked her where she used to spend the day and then she told. Her mother told her to ask the old woman for a cure, that all the cows were sick and she gave her the cure. The next morning as the girl was going to school her mother rubbed the cure to her. As the girl was passing the fort the old woman came out and said to the little girl, Your mother fooled me", and she could not touch the little girl any more.
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    Topics
    1. áit-spás-timpeallacht
      1. áiteanna osnádúrtha agus spioradálta (~158)
        1. ráthanna (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joseph Kelliher
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Denis Rahilly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    65
    Address
    An Mhóin Mhór, Co. Chiarraí