School: Monedarragh, Mostrim (roll number 7642)
- Location:
- Monadarragh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhealláin
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- (continued from previous page)bleeding. Then they knew that it was the old witch was going round in the form of a hare.
About fifteen yards from our house there is a big field. A long time ago a man named Leavy owned. He had potatoes in it and he employed two brothers named Mac [?] to dig them. When they were finished digging, they covered the pit and left down their spades. An argument got up between them and one of them lifted a spade and killed his brother. Then he pegged him into the river at the end of the field and from that to this there is a sally bush growing there.
- Collector
- John Mac Cormack
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cranalagh More, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Michael Mac Cormack
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cranalagh More, Co. Longford
