School: Headfort
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Miss J.E. Browne
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- There is a big fish in Lisgrey Lake and the people say it weighs over sixty pounds.
Mr John Farrelly and Mr Hughy Goldrick were fishing in the lake on different days and they both had hooked the fish but he broke their fishing rods.
Once upon a time a woman could change herself into a hare and take the milk from her neighbour's cow. One morning when the man who owned the cow saw her, he got a gun and wounded the hare but the hare got away. The next morning the woman was found lying on her bed riddled with bullets.
One day two men were going to a wake. When they were coming home at about four o'clock in the morning they had to come beside Gallon Lake. When they came back to Gallon to a neighbour's corn-field they saw four horses eating the oats, they went up and told the man who owned the field and they(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Louis Mc Quade
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
