School: Sceichín an Rince, Cloichín an Mhargaidh
- Location:
- Sceichín an Rince, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Domhnall Ua Cathasaigh
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“There was a teacher named Mrs Mulcahy, teaching in Skeheenarinky, N.S. She was lodging at Loughanna.”
She had a long journey to come to school. She had to pass a lios. One morning as she was one morning as she was passing, she walked very near the lios. Her leg got entangled in a root, it swelled up and she went home again and it got very sore. She could not get it to cure, a lot of doctors attended her, and they could do nothing for her. She wrote to her mother and her mother told her to get a poultes of black turf and to put it to her leg as hot as she could bear it, she did as she was told and after a few days it was cured.- Transcription guide »You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Informant
- Mrs P. Hyland
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Sceichín an Rince, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- The Mitchelstown caves are two miles from the school. There are two caves. Lots of strangers go down into one of them, but no-one goes into the other. The cave they'd go into is called [?]. It is said that one day a black sheep came up with her lambs out of the caves and stayed three or four days grazing there. They went(continues on next page)