School: Moveen
- Location:
- Moveen East, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Catháin
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- (continued from previous page)and I turned towards home.
As we were smoking all along the way. I finished my pipe and put it in my pocket. I now thought that I might as well say my Rosary, so that I'd have no delay when I got home, but go to bed. I took out my beads, and put my hat under my arm and began to say the Rosary to myself.
I was now within a half mile of my home. I mustn't have gone far in my prayers when a black hound came from the woods out into the road. It gave me a start, but I kept on at my prayers.
The hound kept crossing and recrossing the road in front of me, and was getting bigger and bigger so I thought- and fire coming out of its eyes, but she never came any nearer to me. Faith: of course I(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Pat Collins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigaholt, Co. Clare
