School: Log na nGall (roll number 15663)
- Location:
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
- Teachers: Tomás Ó Hodhráin Bean Uí Hodhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0157, Page 207
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- One time long ago two men were out on Glencar Lake on a float made of logs of wood tied together. They were out in the middle of the lake when a water horse appeared on top of the water and dragged the float and the men under the water.
Their fishing rods and the float were found on the shore of the lake, but it was supposed that it was a water horse that killed them. This water horse was doing great damage to the people.
One day he was followed out in the lake and the water horse appeared again over the water. He was immediately shot and his body was washed in on the shore.
It is said that there are nine people to be drowned in Glencar Lake.
- Collector
- Michael Commins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tormore, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Pat Harte
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Tormore, Co. Sligo
