School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
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- Many hundreds of years ago when all animals could talk a strange animal frequented a field in Drishane called "Cumar". The people of the locality were scared of him and he was known as "Puca". He was as big as a horse and like a camel in every way even with the hump on his back. He used not be seen or heard by day, but by night if anyone passed through that field he would haul him on his back and begin to race all over the field with him. He used to run like the wind and if the man fell off his back he would haul him up again, before the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75