School: Síolach (roll number 12266)
- Location:
- Sheelagh, Co. Louth
- Teacher: S. Ó Gnímh
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“Mary Ralph Coulter, Carrickastuck, Dundalk who lived there about eighty years ago could turn herself into a hare.”
Mary Ralph Coulter, Carrickastuck, Dundalk who lived there about eighty years ago could turn herself into a hare.
Patrick Kearney, Kelagh whose whose cows were giving a full supply of milk one morning & hardly any the next saw a hare in the street. He went into the house & said to his wife. "Do you think would it be Ralph that's taking the milk"? "You will have to watch & see if the hare goes into the byre" said his wife.
So he looked & one morning saw the hare going into the byre. He took a pitchfork & went down easy to the door & when the hare heard him coming she dashed out and he gave her a prod of the fork in the hip.
He then went up to a friend of his own in Carrickashuck, named Lennon & told Lennon what happened(continues on next page)
- Informant
- John Sherry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Courtbane, Co. Louth