School: An Chúil Árd (C.) (roll number 12588)
- Location:
- Coolard, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máire Ní Liaghain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0401, Page 377
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- Long ago it was a custom by the old people to gather together at a certain neighbours house.
They would sit near the fire and tell stories.
One night a crowd gathered together at a house in Inch.
They were coming home about twelve or one o'clock.
They saw some queer object on the road.
Some of them said it was a dog and others said it was a pig.
They did not take much notice of it the first night but from that out they used to see it every night and it used to follow them for a mile of the road and then disappear.
One night one of the men stooped down to pick up his pipe that fell from(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nancy Hanrahan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Inch East, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Michael Hanrahan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Inch East, Co. Kerry
