School: Colehill (B.), Mullingar (roll number 14672)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Coigligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 083
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- There lived a man named mc Cormac in Aharragh. He was in a habit of rambling to a house in Ratharney. One night when he was leaving, the cock flew down from the collar-ties and crew twelve times before him.
The man of the house asked him was he going to the fair in Ballymahon, and he said he was, and the man of the house said "you will be a sorry man"
He went to the fair and when he was coming home he killed a man the name of Beglan from Moydow.
He was hung soon after in the town of Longford.
My father told me that it was unlucky for a hen to crow before anyone.
It is said that if the eggs are round the chickens will be pullets, and the oval shaped eggs will be cocks.
- Collector
- Patrick Mulvey
- Gender
- Male
