School: Móin Ruadh, Knocktopher
- Location:
- Moanroe Commons, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Dochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0849, Page 258
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- (continued from previous page)split her from her nose to the top of her tail. One half went after each hare and killed them, brought them back to the owner, and fell dead at his feet.
What was to be done then after his great hound had died. He decided to skin the hound, and make a vest of its skin, and he did so. He wore it on him every winter. One day he was cutting furze on the very same hill, and he had his vest of hound skin laid on a glúneen of furze. When the largest hare passed him out in full tally, and it was then he sighed for his great hound.
He shouted "hullow, hullow," and away goes the vest after the hare and brought it back to the poor man. The vest was all he ever wanted to kill a hare when it passed him.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Baby Mac Bride
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Knockmoylan, Co. Kilkenny
