School: Béal na Bláth, Maghcromtha (roll number 12458)
- Location:
- Bealnablath, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cróinín
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- (continued from previous page)had given them great runs that season. She got up and the pack hunted her round and round (and) the hillsides until most of the hounds had dropped out. with the aid of his field glasses the traveller was able to discover two dogs still chasing the hare.
she made straight towards the hut.
It dawned on him as the hounds came howling backwards what the old lady had told him.
His dog was dead next morning. Tears fell from his faded cheeks as he buried him in the corner of the garden.
He never hunted a hare in the slopes of the mountains again.
- Collector
- John Bradfield
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Currabeha, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Michael Drummy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Occupation
- Creamery worker
- Address
- Bellmount Lower, Co. Cork
