School: Garracloon (roll number 6852)
- Location:
- Garrycloonagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: James J. Clarke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0148, Page 57
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Once there lived a King and he had three sons. Every morning when they got up they found that the cows had no milk.
One morning the oldest son having got up very early went out and saw a queer thing milking the cows. When it saw him it turned into a hare and ran odd. He jumped on his horse and called his hound which was a fierce animal and followed her. As she was going along a deep calley he was after her and now and then the hound used to take a turn out of her and people say that it was she that made the River Deel and that it is so twisted because the hound took so many turns out of the hare. At last the horse stopped and the Prince was left behind and the dog kept after the hare all the time. When night came the hound returned(continues on next page)
