School: Uachtar Árd (roll number 4786)
- Location:
- Oughterard, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An tSr M. S. Iognáid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0065, Page 159
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- (continued from previous page)the grave and put down its head and was about to take up the corpse when the man hit him with his sword and nearly killed it. Then the serpent who was already dead said "Hit me again". The man then said "once is enough to hit you" for he knew that if he hit him again he would get alive again and by leaving him that way he would die. The man then got his horse and went home by a short cut to Glann. When he was at the Pucas Bridge a little white woman got up behind him on the horse and stayed there until he was nearly at home and this is why the bridge got its name.
When the man went home he tied up his horse and went to bed. This man or the horse never again saw the daylight because they both died that night.
Until about three years ago the blood of the serpent was to be seen on a stone on one of the windows of St Cummins Church. The stone is not there now and it is said that it must have [been] taken to Dublin.
- Collector
- Nora Joyce
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Oughterard, Co. Galway
