School: Empor (roll number 941)
- Location:
- Emper, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Gallagher
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- There was a man one time and he never used to go to Mass. He used to stay fishing while the people were at Mass.
One Sunday while he was fishing he saw a horse coming swimming down the river and when he came out on the bank he ran at the man.
There was a house near the river and the man ran to it he was just going in on the door when the horse made a bite at him and he missed him. The horse(continues on next page)- Collector
- Sean Mc Guire
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Peter Mc Cormack
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Emper, Co. Westmeath