School: Newtownmanor (roll number 4905)
- Location:
- Newtownmanor, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: P. Mac Néill (Nelson)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0199, Page 257
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- (continued from previous page)was that anybody named Dolan would never be drowned in Lough Gill. She went into the lake and she was never heard of again. Another day she was on a rock in the lake nearby opposite my door. She was wearing a long blue cloak, she had lovely red hair and she was combing it and she was crying. It was said that she some evil would happen and certainly it was the truth because after that a boat with three men in it was going home from the races of Lough Gill. It capsized and the men were drowned.
I received the above information from my grandmother but a neighbour named Bernard Cummingham told me about a water horse he saw in Lough Gill.
He was of a grey colour and he used come out of the lake every night at Newtown castle. A man, Francy Cunningham, locally
- He was of a grey colour and he used come out of the lake every night at Newtown castle. A man, Francy Cunningham, locally(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Anne Smith
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilmore, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Bernard Cunningham
- Relation
- Not a relative
- Gender
- Male
