School: Ballycumber (B.), St Ciaran's
- Location:
- Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: G. Ó Súilleabháin
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- One Sunday two men went to hunt through the fields and the bogs. They had two greyhounds. After walking all day they rose a hare and she ran swiftly with the greyhounds after her. There was an old hut in the bog and the hare ran in the window with the greyhounds after her. When the men went to get the hare they found the two greyhounds eating bread and an old woman sitting by the fire with a pool of blood under her.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Fenlon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mr Joseph Clancy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Castlearmstrong, Co. Offaly