School: Cromadh (B.) (roll number 9306)
- Location:
- Cromadh, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0508, Page 40
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- (continued from previous page)up alive, and give it alive to the cow". he gave some instructions of how she was to be given the live eel. I think it was in oaten meal water, and then he got up and left the house.As soon as he was gone my father and a servant boy made off for the river, 'tis less than a quarter mile away, and in less than no time, they were back with a small live eel in a bottle.The oaten-meal water, or what ever it was, was then prepared and put with the live eel into a bottle and the cow stretched out was bottled with it. I don't know how they got the cow to take the eel, but they did.It was late by the time they had bottled her, and when my(continues on next page)
- Informant
- William Corkery
- Gender
- Male
