School: Gowna
- Location:
- Scrabby, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Hugh Murray
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“In a field along the shore of Lough Gowna there is a place called the Dead Man's Hollow.”
In a field along the shore of Lough Gowna there is a place called the Dead Man's Hollow. Nothing clearly known as to why it is so called. One version is that in the days of the moonlighters there was a raid on a certain house for money as the man of the house had sold a horse and was known to be keeping the money in the house.
The bean an tige kept cool when the raiders came. they took the man and tied him up , [?] and she sat down at the fire to think. They dragged the tied husband outside and the wife seeing an ash shovel in the corner (that is a small shovel for pulling out ashes) she lifted this and almost split in two the ring leader's head. Shouts were just heard outside so the raiders made a hasty retreat carrying their leader with them. He died in this hollow mentioned above and was left unburied there till the weather [?] his bones.