School: Monedarragh, Mostrim (roll number 7642)
- Location:
- Monadarragh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhealláin
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- (continued from previous page)had no butter. The woman of the house went to the priest and told him. After a long time he got the butter back for her.
- One day two men were out hunting. They put up a hare and she ran for a little house and went in on the window. When the men came as far as the house, they could see nothing, but an old woman sitting on a stool. They got several hunts after the same hare but she always went for the little house and the dogs weren't able to catch her. They told the priest, and he told them to get a black greyhound without a single white hair. So they got him and put up the hare, but the dog asn't fit to catch the hare, until she was just going in on the window and he pulled a piece out of her leg. When the men came up to the house they saw the old woman sitting on a stool and her leg all(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Mac Cormack
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cranalagh More, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Michael Mac Cormack
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cranalagh More, Co. Longford
