School: Castlegannon, Mullinavat (roll number 13028)
- Location:
- Castlegannon, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Seán Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0848, Page 253
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - An enormous eel is supposed to live in the White Bog in Derrylackey near Castlegannon school. He is about twenty feet long and three feet wide. People were afraid to pass by this pond at night. It is a bottomless pond and it was said that the eel lived there. When people were passing by this pond they heard a gurgling sound and the water splashing up. This was the eel in the pond. He had a girth as thick as a horse. Sometimes he came out on the land and he ate sheep and lambs cows and other animals. Children were afraid to pass by the eel without somebody with them.
- Long ago a fair was held in Hugginstown known as the fair of Harvey. It is held there still on the 12th May every year. Long ago the young girls(continues on next page)
