School: Carrickallen
- Location:
- Carrickallen, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Lynch
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1022, Page 250
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- Carroll also says that the old road past his house in Glasdrummond was a coach road from Derry to Dublin. Another old road crossed Glasdrummond in an east and west direction and was said to be the road between Sligo and Dundalk.
- Witches often turned themselves into hares to steal the milk of cows. They were chased by dogs without a white hair. When the hare was injured an old woman was usually afterwards found dying in some hut in the locality. This was a common belief.
