School: Carrickgorman
- Location:
- Carrickgorman, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Fleming
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - John Rooney of Carrickgorman in the parish of Killenkere, used to tell the neighbours who went on a ceilede to him the desperate biting the fleas gave him at Mrs. Holly's lodging house, Garrishon Co. Meath, and of the bother he had with a collie bitch which he kept in the kitchen at Quilcia.
When he was a boy a crowd of dogs were around the house all night, John slept in a settle bed in the kitchen, and had the bitch tied to the leg of the table, in the middle of the night a big black dog fell down through the roof of the house into the bed on John.
The story of his goat eating "Margaret Brown's" cabbage brought Miss Brown over to(continues on next page)
