School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 315
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“At one time there were three tailors and an old woman living together in the hill road in a small house.”
(continued from previous page)advised them to go to bed. The young tailors remained on watched to see what the old woman was going to do. When the clock struck twelve the old woman gave three leaps on the floor. She jumped up on the table took a horn from under the rafters and shouted into it. Is it time to go" At the moment she turned into a hare and she went out the door. The young tailor came up and turned himself into a greyhound and ran after her. She went into a big field and he knocked three turns out of her. Going out the gap he caught her by the leg and she screeched. He followed her into the field. There did hares come from all directions. The caption of the hares said he had no power or no good to do for them. They(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tim Leahy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Brian Mulvihill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derry, Co. Kerry