School: Druim Áine (roll number 9438)
- Location:
- Drumany (O'Brien), Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mac Raghnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0212, Page 309
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- (continued from previous page)time the witch kept saying hair hold tight and the horse and the hound could not help. At last, witch turned the man into a stone.
When the second brother came to the hole he saw blood in it and he knew his brother was dead. He went the road his first brother went and the same thing happened to him. When the youngest brother came to the hole he saw blood in it and he said he would revenge his brothers death. He went to the palace and the king promised if he killed the hare half his kingdom. As they were talking the hare jumped up into window. He called the hound and they after the hare until they came to the old house. The man went in and it was not long till an old hag jumped up on the window and said "Mobron it's a cold night for a poor old woman like me to be outside." She gave the hairs to put around the horse and the hounds and he threw them in the fire. The witch came in and they chatted for a good while. After a while the witch said hair hold tight and the man said horse and hound help(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Moran
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumany (O'Brien), Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Martin Roddy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Drumany (O'Brien), Co. Leitrim
