School: Drumbibe (roll number 10765)
- Location:
- Drumbibe, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Tomás Searplaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0223, Page 300
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- In the northern part of Ireland there was a school-master who was very fond of treating his pupils very cruelly. It is said that a Catholic priest on hearing of his wicked deeds got him banished from the school, and tradition tells us that he was changed into a a pig, and was a black colour. It is isaid tht the pig travelled three miles east of Ballinamore always keeping to the valley of the country; and past Carrigallen in County Leitrim, but when he went some distance below Fenagh a woman who was washing clothes on the bank of a river, was surprised when she saw him approaching, killed him with a stroke of a beetle she had in her hand. Told by Peter Dolan (age 75) Ballinamore, Co Leitrim
- Collector
- Kathleen Mc Teigue
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aughnasheelan, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Peter Dolan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moher, Co. Leitrim
