School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 165
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“One night a man was coming home from a wake.”
One night a man was coming home from a wake. It was about twelve oclock. He had to go up a boreen to his house. It was a very lonesome place. There was a gate at one side of the boreen, and when he was above the gate he heard the bushes shaking. He looked at the bushes and he saw a rabbit sitting on the road. His two eyes were shining like two lamps. He used be jumping up very high in the air. While he was jumping, the man got a few stones but he could not throw them he was so much afraid. He had a Rosary Beads in his hand and he made the sign of the cross and the rabbit vanished. He went home safely but when he was in bed he heard a voice saying three times, "Are(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Leahy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Michael Leahy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry