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   eyes can be seen especially on a Monday night and he often walks alongside any parties travelling in the direction of the Stonewall.
   A lady having two dogs as large as year old calves on two chains and with burning red tongues and eyes were met one morning at 1 o'clock am near Mr Killen's avenue gate by Patrick Jackson of Drutamy and John Carrie of Togher, after they passed these men say they felt a very heavy smell of sulphur, other local people tell the same experience.

   

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2. Composition - Strange Animals

   

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   There is a little lake called the "Castle lake" about 1/2 mile from Bailieborn and a story is told that about eighty years ago a man named Phil Carroll of Urcher was fishing, and all of a sudden there appeared in the rushes adjoining the lake what seemed to him as a strange looking big dog

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Willie Cox

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Mr Hugh Cox

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   55

   Address

   Corlurgan, Co. Cavan