School: Gort an Ghainimh (roll number 16127)
- Location:
- Gortaganny, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M. Ó Cobhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0242, Page 228
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- The old men of his young days used tell of a water-horse in Lough Erritt which is a quarter of a mile from this school. Many people asserted that they saw it. They also told the story of a man who captured this water horse by some means. He kept the animal for years. One day he brought him out to pasture on the shores of the lough. He took off the bridle, and struck a blow at the animal. The horse reared and plunged and finally disappeared into the middle of the lake never to come back.
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