School: Béal Átha na Muice (roll number 14862)
- Location:
- Swinford, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Dominick Caron
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0122, Page 335
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- (continued from previous page)it is right to kill the wasp, but the cricket should not be killed.
- Long ago where the river Moy now flows was all bog land so this is how it did start. One hot day in Summer a bullock went to take a drink out of a well in the Ox Mountains. While he was taking the drink a boy came and caught him by the tail and gave him such a fright that he rushed away and the boy slinging on his tail. He never stopped running in and out until he reached the sea at Killala. The well followed his tracks all the way and so started the River Moy.
