School: Ballyroddy (roll number 12629)
- Location:
- Ballyroddy, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: -
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Strange Animals
My grandmother told me a story she heard from her grand-mother, about a man who was coming home from rambling late one night.
As he was passing by a lone bush, he met a funeral of cats, and one of the cats said "Tell Kito at home, that Hopper is dead" The man started to tell his wife, when he came home about his strange adventure, when he came to what the cat said, his own cat who was blinking quietly at the fire jumped up and crying out "Oh" my one only son" made for the door, ran out and was never seen after that.
Mrs Holmes (79)
Caldra.
Elphin.
Alph. Rushe.
Shankil.
Elphin
- Collector
- Alphonsus Rushe
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shankill, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Holmes
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Caldragh, Co. Roscommon
