School: Greaghagarran
- Location:
- Greaghagarran, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: B.Nic Fhearghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1014, Page 301
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- (continued from previous page)Some distance from the townland of Ardmore a family named Mulligan resided until recently. The father died and the girls it is believed went to Belfast. None of this family had a nose since the Penal Times. One of their ancestors was a priest-hunter, and having heard that a priest was in hiding in a kindly Protestant house, he went in and began "sniffing" around the house. When he entered he said to the woman of the house that he smelled a priest. The woman who was churning at the time took the dash from the churn, and hit him on the face with it, telling him to "smell that". She cut off his nose and since then all his descendants were born without noses. My father and mother knew the last family that resided in the locality and it is quite true that they were born without noses.
- Collector
- Mary Carolan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Greaghagarran, Co. Cavan
- Collector
- Mary Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Greaghagarran, Co. Cavan
- Collector
- May Cusack
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Greaghagarran, Co. Cavan
- Collector
- T. Mc Cabe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Greaghagarran, Co. Cavan
