School: Caisleán Nua (C) (roll number 15772)
- Location:
- Newcastle, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Staic
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- About 35 years ago there were three men fishing in a lake in Tiaquin locally known as Loch a Cornéil the names of the three men were John, and Michael Glynn, and Peter Ruane and as they were standing on a clump of rushes a few yards out on the lake they got out there in a small boat and were fishing for pike and trout just as they were fishing they thought they felt the rushes on which they were standing moving under them and immediately what rose out from under the rushes but a beautiful white enchanted horse. He swam away out to the middle of the lake, neighed three times and then disappeared out of their, they were frightened very much and it did not take them long to get back to their boat and to swim out again to the brink of the lake to safety. Two of the men(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Jordan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Shoodaun, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Jordan
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shoodaun, Co. Galway