School: Dernakesh (B)
- Location:
- Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Comhraidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 365
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- (continued from previous page)do. She drove the bullock to into the river and then jumped in after it and caught its tail. The bullock swam across and pulled the woman after it and she got the rest of her cattle safe into Connaught.
She came back to her home about ten years after and lived the rest of her life there which was about twenty years.
- In the year 1700 there lived in the townland of Dooreagh a family O' Hares. The father went to America and left his wife and three children at home. This night there came a robber named William Newel to the house as robbers were very common in those days. He tried to get in through the door but failed, then he tried the window and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brendan Shalvey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Boyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Latully, Co. Cavan
