School: Wateraghy
- Location:
- Woteraghy, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: C. Ó Cuilinn
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- About four years ago my mother and her aunt was coming home from Crossdoney. However it happened the ten o'clock train was almost an hour late, that night and there was no moon shining. It was nearly as dark as pitch.
When they reached Legaginny cross roads which is on the main road leading from Arva to Cavan. They had a small little flash lamp which just showed them where they were going.
They had not gone far when they saw a big white sheep, as they taught, in the field beside them. It got out on the road before them and started to roar terribly. It continued to walk on before them until it came to Scarvey Bridge and then the dis-(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Cosgrove
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Cosgrove
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Corlismore, Co. Cavan
