School: Killough (roll number 9540)
- Location:
- Killulagh, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mary Lynch
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0726, Page 312
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- About twenty years ago a man lived in Johnstown and each Sunday morning he used to get up and get ready as if he was going to mass, but instead of going to mass he used to go fishing to a lake in Johnstown bog called the "Black Lake". One Sunday as he was fishing he saw a strange animal. It was like a horse but it had only one eye. He left the lake but the animal followed him for some distance. This man never went to fish again.
- Collector
- Maggie Callan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mary Anne Callan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Williamstown (Briscoe), Co. Westmeath
