Tommie M’Cormick relates, that about sixty years ago the mother of John M’Kendry, of Tircor, Cushleake, gave birth one evening to a child; the place where she lay was a loft over the kitchen fire. Two neighbouring girls looked after the infant, who was placed in a cradle at the side of the fire. The girls fell asleep, and when they awoke the infant had disappeared; an alarm was raised, and the squealing of an infant was heard. On going into the byre (which was oft the kitchen) the girls found the infant lying inside the byre on the ground, below the ‘group-hole.’ Brenan 61