School: Valleymount
- Location:
- Valleymount, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Cochláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0917, Page 100
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- (continued from previous page)all cannot be yours. I will have this one. So the next morning the corpse was to be seen and he won his bet.
- There was once a Schoolmaster he taught school down in Kildare.
Tor amusement for the children at playhour he used to turn himself into a rabbit and sometimes into a rat and get the children to run after him to see which of them would catch him.
This was going on for a longtime till the children began to talk about the sport they used to have running after the master at playhour.
The people began to think that he was not a right master.
They planned to get a pack of hounds.
The next day they got the children to get him to turn himself into a hare or a rabbit.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Cassie Cullen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigacurra, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mrs John Cullen
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Carrigacurra, Co. Wicklow
