1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Corratober

School: Corratober

Location:
Corratober, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Ss. Mac Gabhann
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0986, Page 161

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0986, Page 161

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Corratober
  2. XML Page 161
  3. XML “The Slasher's Charger”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. The Slasher's Charger

    Share Share Post
    When Myles the Slasher was a young boy he and his comrades often saw a mare and foal coming out of the lough and feed on a meadow along its shore. This lough is situated between the townlands of Augharan and Cavan in the County Leitrim. Myles set a plan to catch the foal. He got webs of home-manufactured linen and tied them together and spread them along the lough shore and placed his [?] at each end of the web. The men lay concealed until the mare and foal went up the meadow past the web. Then they lifted up the linen. The mare jumped the web but the foal got entangled and was caught. Just then a voice came
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Reilly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Enaghan, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Edward Reilly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    52
    Address
    Enaghan, Co. Longford