School: Edenagully
- Location:
- Edennagully, Co. Cavan
- Teachers: S. Ó Cléirigh C. Ó Baoighealláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1007, Page 206
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“It is said that there was a black hare over on a mountain near Tierworker.”
(continued from previous page)to pick some black-berries for her. She ate one of them and as soon as she had it eaten she swallowed the horse and charriot and all the people who were on the road. Saint Patrick came and shot her. She was buried somewhere near Moybollogue. It is said that when four hundred and ninty-nine people of the name of Gargan cross her grave she will rise again and eat up everything in the whole country.
- About one thousand years ago there was a castle at Muff. The castle is knocked down and nearly all the stones are carted away. There were also a few houses near the castle and they are all knocked down.
