School: An Muileann (roll number 9208)
- Location:
- Mullen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: B. Mac Siúrtáin
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- (continued from previous page)knew she helped him, and he would kill both of them. They got two horses and set of for the young man's house. They were not gone far when he looked behind him and he saw the man following them. The girl told him to looke in his horses right ear and what ever he would get to throw it behind him and a lake sprang up behind them. They were gone a long way and he looked behind him again and he saw the man coming after them. She told him to look in his horses left ear and what ever he would get to throw it behind him. He got a bit of wood and immediately he threw it behind him a wood sprang up behind them and the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lizzie Breslin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leitrim, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mr John Breslin
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 77
- Address
- Leitrim, Co. Roscommon
