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   “Peter Dorcy an' another fellow from Ballygogue...”

   

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   this other fellow went down the next night an waited for a good while, when all of a suddent a big black dog jumped out over the ditcch with eyes in his head as big as egg cup mouths an' a pair of feet as big as saucers. He looked at the two men for a while, and then he trotted off down the road an' left the two men lookin' at each other. The two men came along the next night and watched for the dog again, an' when he came out over the ditch an' ran down the road, they took up stones and fired at him, an' hit him. When they fired at him they got sorry for what they had done an' went home. A few nights afterwards they were lyin' down on the grass beside the road, and they were talkin' about the black dog when they heard a great noise

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   History Edit

   Date

   1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Location

   Ballyhoge, Co. Wexford

   Informant

   • Peadar Ó Dorcaigh