Once upon a time a very beautiful girl lived, with her old granny, in a tiny cottage beside Killeavy Old Church. In the past people had different ideas of beauty from those we have today. A girl was thought to be a beauty if she had a big, broad back - fit to pull a plough, or to carry two buckets of water. Well this girl had a big broad back and aroused passion in …showed first 75 words of 1794 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1794 total…weren't for that innocent child," it snarled, "I would have killed you," and disappeared. The next ceili night when one of the boys asked the girl if he could see her home she thought for a minute. "Thank you very much," she said, "that would be very kind of you." She ended up washing his socks as they married after a few months. They had a large family and lived to a ripe old age.