School: Lough Gur, Kilmallock (roll number 7117)
- Location:
- Loughgur, Co. Limerick
- Teachers: T. Collins P. Ó Seaghdha
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- (continued from previous page)with silver shoes. He will have to stay riding until the shoes wear and then the enchantment will be broken.
- One night a man was coming from Limerick with a donkey and cart. He had to pass-by the guard's Barrack at Ballyneety and he had no lights. At (time) that moment he thougt of a plan. He unharnessed the donkey from the cart, and tied him to the back of it. He then took the donkey's place himself. Meanwhile a (Gard) Guard came on and gave the order to halt, "Where is your light" he asked. "Go back and ask the driver" answered the man
- Collector
- Mary Anne Casey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Holycross, Co. Limerick
