School: Dairbhre, (C.) Clanna Caoilte (roll number 13126)
- Location:
- Dairbhre, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Onóir Ní Riagáin
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- There was a man living in Ross named Cain Carroll. One winter's night he brought in a log which was so big that it kept burning for 3 weeks.
When it was nearly burnt, a hare jumped out of it & ran out the door. The people believed there was a fairy in the form of a hare in the locality.
'Who hunted the wild hare
o'er Burgatia or Froe
Who for the love of a fight
to the evil one would go.'
- Some of the relations of Tadhg an [?] live near Ahafore & there is a place called Cos Dearg - the path of the red soldier because the Red-coats visited the place. One of their soldiers was believed to be killed there & strange lights were seen there. The place was haunted & people were afraid to pass there in the night-time
