School: Crummy (roll number 12691)
- Location:
- Crummy, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Rodacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0211, Page 331
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- A water Horse
One day a man was working in a field near Cama Lough. This Lough is situated in the townland of Drumbad, near Ballinamore. He saw a water horse coming out of the Lough and grazing on the pasture field near the edge of the Lough. That night he called on some neighbours to come with him next day and when the horse would come out to surround him and catch him if possible. The neighbours gathered next day and lay in hiding for the animal. They were not very long there until the horse came out. They surrounded it and succeeded in catching it. This man spent some time training and breaking this horse. One day when he was carting out manure with the water horse to a tillage field along the edge of the Lough a strange thing happened. When he had his load empty and was retur-ning home and he was getting his rains, another water horse neighed in the Lough, and before he could wink an eye the trained water horse ran away as quick as(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Mc Sharry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crummy, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Tim Mc Kiernan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Drumgud, Co. Leitrim
