School: Clochar na Trócaire (Scoil Naomh Seosaimh) (roll number 13770)

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   where a ragman was drowned in a "gullion" in this field a hundred years ago. A lone white dale tree in the town-land of Tulrusk marks the spot where a boy named 'Mahon' belonging to the "Molly McGuires" was killed. The first time he was buried there there was three men at the burial and when they went home two of the men had a doubt to the other man, and they went back and lifted the corpse at day break and had it buried in a second place, and it was lucky for them because the peelers were at the place where he was buried on that first day. Wan man went back and lifted the corpse the second time because he did not trust the other man, and covered the sorpse in a pile of rushes until it was brought in a load of clover through the town of Mohill. There was a showman on the street with a preforming rooster dragging a heavy log of timber after him, as the people thought. The peelers was attractred by the wonderful feats of the preforming bird, but the man on the load of clover culd see nothing great about a rooster dragging a straw after him because the four leaf clover was in

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Location

   Drumdoo, Co. Leitrim

   Collector

   Una Ní Ragnall

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drumdoo, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   Mr Ragnall

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   50

   Occupation

   Feirmeoir

   Address

   Drumdoo, Co. Leitrim