School: Ballinamore (B.) (roll number 2820)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Heslin
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“My mother and another woman were walking along a road one night. It was fairly dark and they had to pass by a fort.”
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- Hugh Reynolds
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Hugh Reynolds
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
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“About fifty years ago a man named Mr Mc Cartain went into a wood to cut a tree to make a ladder.”
About fifty years ago a man named Mr Mc Cartain went into a wood to cut a tree to make a ladder. He climbed up the tree to cut off branches. He looked down and he saw a sow with fire in her mouth. He cut the tree and brought it home.
When he was going home two horses galloped after him to the adjoining drain. He had scarcely time to jump the drain when the horses were on the other brink and snorted at him. Then the horses disappeared.
Mc Cartain went home got ill and he didn't recover for three months.