School: Cnoc Luachra (roll number 12653)
- Location:
- Knockloughra, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Móghráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0087, Page 23
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- There was once a man who was always out shooting birds, rabbits and hares. As he was going one day, he put a cartridge in his gun. He fired at a hare. She did not kill her, he only wounded her. She escaped and got into the ruins of an old building. He followed her and saw a lovely girl inside. He knew that this girl was dead for a number of years back. He never fired a shot at a hare again.
- Collector
- Mairghréad Nic Shuibhne
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Seán Mac Suibhne
- Relation
- Unknown
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Cartron, Co. Mayo
- There was once a man and he went out shooting one morning very early. He saw a hare and fired at him. Then the hare ran into an old house. (i.e. a ruin). When the man went in to get him he saw an old woman sitting on a stone and she was all blood. The man never fired a shot after that.
