School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)

Location:
Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Foghlú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0290, Page 192

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  1. Many hundreds of years ago when all animals could talk a strange animal frequented a field in Drishane called "Cumar". The people of the locality were scared of him and he was known as "Puca". He was as big as a horse and like a camel in every way even with the hump on his back. He used not be seen or heard by day, but by night if anyone passed through that field he would haul him on his back and begin to race all over the field with him. He used to run like the wind and if the man fell off his back he would haul him up again, before the
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary O' Sullivan
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Mary Moynihan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    75