School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)
- Location:
- Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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- (continued from previous page)They saw a cock of hay in a field on the way. Stapleton asked the man was he able to make a thumb-rope.
"I can of course" he said. Then he told him to go in, make the rope, and bring it out.
When he got the rope he saw a buachalán growing on the ditch. He went over to the buachalán and said some words over it, and a pig appeared.
They drove him into the fair and sold him.
When the man was driving the pig away, there was a little stream across the road;(continues on next page)- Collector
- James Kane
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Peter Moran
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kildorragh, Co. Leitrim