School: Cluain Leamhac (Cloonloo) (roll number 12767)
- Location:
- Cloonloogh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0188, Page 072
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- (continued from previous page)black dog came out before them and the eldest of
them took up stones and started pegging him
The dog jumped accross the ditch and a ball of
fire came out on his mouth. The brother kept
pegging him till he came to Tivanagh and he
got weak there and could not peg him any-
more and the other brother had to carry him
home. the dog followed them to a stream that was running accross the road and he diss-
appeared there.
- In olden times there lived a man in Coolavin
who owned a large herd of cows. The noticed that some
of the cows gave him no milk and becoming suspicious he
determined to watch what was the cause.He set out one night with a hound and watched.
After a while he saw a hare drawing the milk from
one of the cows. he set the hound after the hare and he
followed her to and old hut at the end of the field.
There she went into the hut and the hound got a bite
of her as she was going in on the window and brought
the blood. The man followed in the tracks of the hare till he
came to the hut. He went in and saw an old Hag spinning(continues on next page) - Collector
- Nelly Quinn
