School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máthais Íde
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0702, Page 261
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- Once a hunted priest was captured by protestants in Co Westmeath.
He was put riding an old starved horse.
Then an noose was put round his neck, and suspended from an overhanging branch of a tree on the road-side.
A bundle of fresh mown hay and some oats was placed a few paces from the horse's head. This was done to tempt the horse for as soon as he would move the priest would be left hanging from the tree.
The priest saw this and at once said to the horse :- If you gang, Bobby, I hang." So the poor horse remained stead fast at his post, not moving a step. At long last the miscreants desisted and went(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Mc Guinness
- Gender
- Female
