Máire Ní Mhurchadha

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Máire Ní Mhurchadha  [duchas:4801881]

Maire Ni Murcada lived in Eyeries about sixty years ago. The fairies used to come every day to her house talk. Any thing that was going to happen in the parish she used to fortell it.
There is a rock in Beal na leapca called cowlive rock. There is a shape of a door in it. She used to visit it every day. The fairies used to live in it long ago. One day she was coming from town back of a man. When they reached the top of Beal na leapca. She came off the horse and told the man to stay there until she would come back. She went towards the rock and the man followed her. She turned back and said he had no right to intercept. They both came back to Eyeries on the horse. She was very angry with him and told him that she should travel all the way to another cowlive rock in Kerry that night to get information that he intercepted her in getting. The man ame back to Cahirkeem.

Máire Ní Mhurchadha  [duchas:4801882]

About sixty years ago a woman named Maire Ni Murcada was brought away in the fairies. One night she was out late. She could tell anyone if they were going to live or die and she could show everybody where to build their house. In the night she would come and mark a place and they would see it next morning. She had a lot of other charms also.
One night she was coming from the Mines, and there was a man coming after her but the man did not see her, so he sat down on a bank. After a while a hound came to him, he did nothing to the hound, and the hound went away. The next day Maire Ni Murcada met him and she said to him it was a good job you did nothing to the hound last night or he would know it.