School: Sceichín an Rince, Cloichín an Mhargaidh

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   “There was a teacher named Mrs Mulcahy, teaching in Skeheenarinky, N.S. She was lodging at Loughanna.”

   

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   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.

   

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   One night a man was coming home from a fair, he was drunk, when he was as far as "Tuar Cross" he hit up against something. He opened his eyes and he saw a white woman standing before him. He said to her "what do you want there for", the woman was seen there every night, and she was never seen after that.

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   1. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. neacha neamhshaolta agus osnádúrtha (~14,864)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs P. Hyland

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   47

   Address

   Sceichín an Rince, Co. Thiobraid Árann

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   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

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