School: Mount Plunkett (roll number 8096)
- Location:
- Mountplunkett, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Bheirn
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- Strange Animals
There are not many strange animals in this district. Long ago the pattern in Lecarrow a cow with two mouths appeared and all the people ran away with fright.
A fish with a man's head was seen down in "Doogaire", bog some years ago and it spat at every man it saw.
A new calved cow had a calf with a pig's head and this calve only lived for two hours.
Some time ago there was a black pig seen someplace down in Clooncach bog and it is said that this pig was in a clamp of turf and when it came(continues on next page)
