School: Baile na Martra (B.) (roll number 13647)
- Location:
- Castlemartyr, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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- (continued from previous page)hounds near Killeagh. His name was William Joyce. The hounds put up a hare in the field and they had a great course. When the hare came back again it turned into a calf. After that night the calf used be seen by the ditch. It was said that the calf was a Protestant who died there and who was after committing murder in the district. The old people also say that there used be a big black dog seen over at the Hospital boreen on the Killeagh Rd near Castlemartyr. One night he nearly killed a man going home. He frightened people as his bark was very loud. One night a man folded his hankerchief and put it up on a ditch. It turned into a hare and it beat the dog around the field. Next morning the dogs were found dead.
- One day a few men were working in Ronaynes field of Ballyvorisheen. One of them saw a hare and he started hunting him.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paddy Hurley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mogeely, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John O Shea
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockane, Co. Cork