School: Largy (roll number 10509)
- Location:
- Largy, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Tadhg Mac Conmara
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Cormac had two huts one at Erriff and the other at the bottom of Glenade Rock. He used to go from one of those huts to the other in order to escape the English soldiers. In the middle of a snowy winter's night the soldiers went to the hut in which he was sleeping. They thought that they would catch him that time in bed, but Cormac had a plan made beforehand by which no man could enter the house without he hearing him. He had a large hole dug in the ground outside the door and this was covered with a large flag. When a person stood on the flag it made a great(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Gilligan
- Gender
- Female
