School: Moynalty (B.)
- Location:
- Moynalty, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Uillford Ó Maoilmhichil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0705, Page 360
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- There was a School Master living in Co Antrim long ago and he had the power of magic. He was very fond of coursing with greyhounds and hares and rabbits. Every day at playtime he would change the children into hares and greyhounds. He would have the children running up and down the yard until play time was over and then he would change them back again so that the children used to go home exhausted every evening. One mother got very angry at this and she also had the power of magic. She went to him and changed him into a black Pig and she told him that he would run until he would cut his own throat with his two front paws. He started to run and ran down through Antrim, Down, Louth, and Meath until he came to the Boyne and he jumped into the Boyne and kept swimming until he cut his own throat with his two front paws. They Valley of the black pig runs from Antrim, Down, Louth and through various parts of Meath. It runs through Walterstown and Moynalty and leads on to the Boyne at Navan and that is why it(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michal Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moynalty, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Patrick Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moynalty, Co. Meath
