School: Lowtown (B.), Galbally
- Location:
- Galbally, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Ceallacháin
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- (continued from previous page)he saw the loveliest dog he ever saw.
He was of all the colours of the rainbow.
He went out to look for the calves
that he was taking to the fair. As he
looked towards the moate he saw the
dog going into it and the horse and
the calves following it. He followed
the dog to the moate. As he neared
the moate the dog disappeared through
a hole in the centre of it. Immediately
the dog had gone the hole closed
again. Mr Bussen entered the moate
and tried to hunt the cattle out. When
he had them at the mouth of the moate
they were turned back by something
invisible. Then Patrick Bussen went
home and he didn't go to the fair at all.
Soon after, he fell sick and died.
The night he died gravel was hurled
against the window and next morning
no gravel could be found.
- Collector
- Liam Ó Laocha
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardnamoher, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mrs Leahy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardnamoher, Co. Limerick
