School: Barradubh (Sixmilebridge)

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1. Tracking Hares (continued)

   

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   and not more than two hounds are left after a hare. The old hunting rule was that hares were not to be coursed any month that did not contain the letter "R".

   When a hare runs into a gullet where he remains or tries to escape into a rabbit burrow or Clochar it is a sign that he is worn out.

   Formerly hares were reared as pets and if a remarkably big hare was killed the skin was stuffed and kept as an ornament but neither pets not stuffed hares were allowed in a house where there was a young married woman fearing future children would be born with hare-lips.

   Some people do not like hares. The are considered uncanny. A man in Glenflesk came across a hare dragging a snare and the piece of wood to which it has been fastened. He raised a stick to strike the animal when it shouted and he thought the animal said "Mike don't strike me". When a hare is wounded he cries like a person. A man in Glenflesk brought home a hare and it was put boiling. When the woman of the house thought it was boiled she went

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Dómhnall Ua Donnchadha

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir