School: Gort an Ghainimh (roll number 16127)
- Location:
- Gortaganny, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M. Ó Cobhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0242, Page 441
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- (continued from previous page)by a thunder storm which followed. That night the friars had a dream and it was not one man alone who had it but every man of them. In it they saw a woman clothed in white linen and she said to them that it was not in the power of any man living to banish the evil spirit except a piper named Donagh O'Grady who was living a Tavraun a man who did more good says she, on this world than all the priests and friars in the country. They sent for him and he banished the evil spirits. He gave money to some tinkers that were passing by to throw the body into a hole in the shaking-scraw a mile from the Abbey and the hole is known as The "Hole of the Black Boar" ever since.
- Collector
- Norah Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloondart, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs B. Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloondart, Co. Roscommon
