School: Corr Odhar (roll number 14701)
- Location:
- Corrower, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Aibhistín Ó Coinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0126, Page 460
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- Ceann-na searrac is a headland is a headland going out to the sea at Enniscrone, Co. Sligo.
I will tell you how it got it's name.
There lived a poor man in the village and his only way of living was by the manufacture of kelp.
They had to take the sea-weed up by the horse with creels and straddles and at at the beginning of the season his horse died, and he was left desolate.
One morning he saw a black horse in his field and he wondered where he came from. His wife told him to turn him out on the road. This he did, but it would take an army to keep him out of his field. He went in and said to his wife " I will catch him, he might put up the rack for us".
" You will be put to jail for using another man's horse", said his wife.
"I will chance him", he said. He yoked the horse and he did his work perfectly.
He kept this animal for years and reared seven foals. One day he got angry with her, and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mullaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corrower, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr William Mullaney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Corrower, Co. Mayo
