School: Ladhar (B.), Bán-Tír (roll number 3269)
- Location:
- Lyre, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Halladáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0361, Page 424
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Those hounds have never since been seen
But are often heard in air
Chasing the spiteful maidrín
In the shape of a wounded hare
And when those hounds are in air
Well may his sept men cry
Vain Leeche's care vain churchman's prayer
For then O'Keeffe must die"Note - Leech was the local doctor
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“Thade Horgan then told a story about Ó Caomh na madraí.”
There were many families of the O'Keefe's in the district of Lyre but they have died out one by one. Some years ago, when Kate O'Keefe died some men who were going to a fair in Kanturk about four o'clock in the morning, heard the barking of dogs. The barking was very strange and the men stood to listen. They got terrified, however, when the wicked yelping came over their heads from the direction of Kate O'Keefe's house and with the speed of a snipe crossed the country towards the north of Dunhallow which was the O'Keefe's country. Afterwards the men learned of Kate O'Keefe's(continues on next page) - Informant
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