School: Cloran (roll number 5282)
- Location:
- Cloran and Corcullentry, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Síle Flynn
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- (continued from previous page)woman seeing how foolish she had been.
Every since there is in this field a square of boggy land in which people say there is a crock of gold. Men one night when going home after a game of cards say that they saw a hare sitting in the middle of it.
- Once upon a time there lived a landlord and he was very cruel and he made a curfew forbidding any person to be out after eight o' clock and if they were caught out they should be shot.
After that hour he went out with a large army of men and shot all the(continues on next page) - Collector
- Séamus Ó Coinín
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockshangan, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Miss M. Cullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Grennanstown, Co. Meath
