School: Turloch (roll number 10286)
- Location:
- Turlough, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Maolmhuaidh
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- Long ago there were alot of wild animals in Ireland. There were alot of wild cats through the country. Once there was a man, and he killed a wild cat, and when he came home after killing the wild cat he was telling the people of the house, and there was a tame cat sitting beside the fire, and he jumped up on the man, and began tearing the man's neck. The cat said:-
I'll tear your neck out, because you killed my father.”
The wild cats were not were not like the ordinary cats. They had a nail in their tail, and if they stuck anything with that nail they would kill it.
- Collector
- Annie conway
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Turlough, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Conway
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Turlough, Co. Mayo
