School: Raharney (B.)
- Location:
- Raharney, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: S. Ó Conmhidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0727, Page 021
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They would then despatch goods to the small churches around the locality on pack mules over hills and dales to their various destinations and it so happened a greedy chieftain waylaid, and robbed the pack mules and wounded them and almost left dead. their two drivers at the ford of Annoch on the river Deel not far from the present "Annadruce" which is the direct lie from Clonard to Raharney and then to Killucan as this was a crime punishable by death. The good Abbot of Clonard spared no pains to find the culprit. He failed however but he left a malediction that after death his spirit would roam around the locality of the crime unseen in the form of an animal, and so we have the valley of the black pig in Derrymore which(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Hugh Clarke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Derrymore, Co. Westmeath
