School: Boicetown, Dunleer (roll number 843)
- Location:
- Boycetown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: J. Higgins
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- There lived in this district about sixty years ago a man named Michael Reily. He was known locally as a very fast runner.
My Uncle says that one day he, Michael Reily and a few other men were reaping in a field at Dunany.
While drinking the tea at one end of the field a hare jumped out of the ditch beside Michael Reily. Michael sprang to his feet and ran after her, and in a race to the opposite ditch of a ten acre field he caught the hare in his hand.
- Collector
- Teresa Heavey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dunany, Co. Louth
