School: Drumshanbo (C.) (roll number 12873)
- Location:
- Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Margaret Flynn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0207, Page 075
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- (continued from previous page)owned by an ORourke a direct decendent of Owen ORourke and has passed from father to son since that time. This slab was cast for Owen O Rourke.
On the slab also are the figures of a lion and a cat being the coat of arms of the O Rourkes. There is a story as to why the cat is incarved on the slab. At one time one of the O Rourkes chief of Leitrim was returning home from battle. Tired and weary he lay down to rest, while his gallow-glasses went ahead.
The enemy was approaching, and a spotted cat jumped on the hand of O Rourke and wakened him. From that forth the cat has been a prime favourite in the house of all O Rourkes, while it is still considered unlucky for an O Rourke to kill or injure a cat.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nancy Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- J.J. Mahon
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Mahanagh, Co. Leitrim
