School: Skerdagh, Newport (roll number 3905)
- Location:
- Skerdagh Lower, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: James Deffely
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0086, Page 72
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- (continued from previous page)At length one of them noticed that there was a pool of blood under the old woman. They raised her up to see what was wrong and there low down on her back was a deep fresh cut. They came to the conclusion that she was the hare and from that time onwards she was known as Girrfiadh McCann. There is a family of that name living in that village yet.
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