School: Naomh Pádraig, Knockvicar
- Location:
- Knockvicar, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Ceallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)hill. There is a patch of meadow in the middle of the bog, and it is said that it was to that patch they brought the gravel. The converted it from a patch of heathery bog to a pasture field.
- About a hundred and ten years ago Tom Leyland was noted for his great teeth. Everybody talked of him. The hedge-school master of Woodfield, Master Doyle, said this talk was nonsense. He challenged Tom, saying he would give him a gallon of whiskey if he cut the head off a large nail with the strength of his teeth. Tom took the nail and with three squeezes he cut it(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máirín Nic Ghiolla Fhaoláin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Woodfield, Co. Roscommon