School: Cnoc Rua
- Location:
- Knockroe, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Seán Mac Diarmada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 352
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- Once upon a time there was a police man going about the country looking for unliscensed dogs. One day he met a small boy and he asked him if he knew anywhere there was an un liscensed dog. The boy told him where there were two dogs that there were not a penny paid out of them this year. So the police man gave him five shillings for telling him. The boy brought him across ditches until he came to a boghole. "Down there" said he "there are two dogs and there was not a penny paid out of them this year. The boy had to run, for his life or the police man would kill it.
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- Collector
- Mary Kate Carty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockroe, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Battie Cartie
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leam, Co. Roscommon
