School: Monreagh (roll number 7143)
- Location:
- Monreagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: R. J. James
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- (continued from previous page)removed. Old residents warned him not to touch it but he only laughed at them.
He employed two horses for the work and both died in a fortnight afterwards. His two children died at the same time being buried on the same day. This happened about 60 years ago. - On the road between Mr. Rankin's of the Cloon and Carrigan's via Killea rectory there is a place near said rectory where a black pig used to be seen on certain nights of the year. It appeared quite suddenly apparently from nowhere and ran along the road in front of the persons who saw it.(continues on next page)