School: Liathdruim
- Location:
- Leitrim Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mainnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0054, Page 0087
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- (continued from previous page)flies and she fell down in a hole that is in the middle of it about twenty feet deep.
Three men had to go down with a ladder and ropes to take her up. A sow also went down and she was never seen since. They say she lived a few years in it eating rabbits.
- About twenty five years ago there lived in Leitrim a very strong man named Broderick. He was very poor and when he was young he was often seen running around the fields in the frost and snow with nothing on him but a bag.
He spent his early life going around working with the farmers of Leitrim. He always ate the black potatoes for(continues on next page) - Collector
- John Fahy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leitrim, Co. Galway
- Informant
- John Hugh Fahy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Leitrim, Co. Galway
