School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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- There were a black sow in Rathcarn, Borrisoleigh. They were a white horse seen in Cronovonr, Borrisoleigh. About twelve o clock one night they were a man coming home from one of the neighbour's houses. He met a turkey cock on the road. The turkey cock was as big as a horse. He followed him a bit of the way home and then the turkey cock disappeared suddenly. The man's name that saw him was Thomas Shanahan Curnaboola Borrisoleigh. They were a brown bull seen in Cullohill, Borrisoleigh, Co Tipperary, it was guarding a Pot of Gold.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Devitt
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killamoyne, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Dan Devitt
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Killamoyne, Co. Tipperary