School: Edengorra (roll number 9597)
- Location:
- Edengora, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Michael Hetherton
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0710, Page 156
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- (continued from previous page)If they catch me they will kill me so I have to run very hard for my life."
The father told the boy not to mention to the master anything of what he had just told him. The next day as the school master came out to turn the boy into a hare, the boy's father changed the teacher into a pig and the scholars into hounds and sent them after him.
He came on by Brakey Lake and across Pat O Brien's field of Edengorra and he left the tracks of his feet on big stones on the top of Edengorra fort. Those tracks are still plain to be seen. Then he went over by Borlea where his tracks are still also visible and then turned for Newtown, Kilmainhamwood and went up a lane that is still called the "Black Lane". Then he crossed at townland called Blackfort near Kilmainhamwood and continued across the country to Annagasson a village bordering the sea in Louth and the "pig" and hounds disappeared there. It is said he will come back again when Ireland will be free.
- Collector
- Patrick Cusack
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corcarra, Co. Meath
- Informant
- George Blake
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Kilfannan, Co. Meath
