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School: Drumfries (roll number 1572)

Location:
Drumfree, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
P. E. Ó Dubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1110, Page 218

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  1. The Priest and the Hare

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    About five hundred years ago there lived in Drumfries a priest. This priest had a great hound, every day that he would go out to hunt a hare would rise from behind a (ditSh) ditch that seperated the Carohill bog from Ballinlough bog. This (be) morning before he went out to hunt he blessed a bit of tape and tied it round the hounds neck. When the hare rose the hound followed it and stuck it in thorns when the priest went to get the hare he found an old woman sitting with her leg bleeding
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Neil Gill
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carroghill, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Ned Kavana
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    68
    Address
    Carroghill, Co. Donegal