School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Baile an Doirín, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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“About forty years ago a dog as big as a calf used to walk the roads of Aran, Mulrook and Ballindereen.”
About forty years ago a dog as big as a calf used to walk the roads of Aran, Mulrook and Ballindereen.
Several people met him but he did not interfere with them. If anyone would try to touch him he would sit on the road looking at him.
There was a Flaherty man from Aran going down from Ballinderreen with a scythe. He said to some of his friends in Ballinderreen that if he met the dog he would cut the legs of it with his scythe. It was a bright night and he was only one(continues on next page)- Collector
- Bridget Connill
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thady Searry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- An Tuairín, Co. na Gaillimhe