School: Coolronan (roll number 16247)
- Location:
- Coolronan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chonmhidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 310
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- (continued from previous page)an it is also related that the last Orange-man will shed his blood at Scariff Bridge.
- People say that there is a black pig under the ruins of the old castle in our land on the Brown estate.
He comes out every seven years for a drink to a well near Kelly's in Carrenstown and he leaves the well dry for three months. - The race of the black pig rises at Paddy Hiney's in Robinstown and goes through the village of Ballivor and from Ballivor to Scariff.
- Collector
- Janey Smith
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Martha Duignan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolronan, Co. Meath
