School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceann tSáile

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Kinsale, Co. Cork
Teacher:
An tSr. Úna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0319, Page 369

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    one Charles Fort Major Black who had viewed many a scene of carnage in the wars of Napoleon and who was as strict a disciplinarian as the Governor of bye gone centuries beheld the apparition in the broad daylight as he stood by the door of the T House.
    And now if you wait until the shadows of evening begin to gather, a strange sight will meet your eyes. It is the cattle hurrying away from the vicinity of the T House. Even though the grazing at this spot is the sweetest they will not pause beyond a certain moment to snatch a bite, but will scamper off as if driven by some invisible being.
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    Language
    English
    Informant
    Séamus Breathnach
    Gender
    Male