School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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Once upon a time there lived a man in Knocknahanee named S Hogan .he was very much against landlords and the police were in search of him.He used sleep with people around him especially with who had a wide chimney in the house he would stay with them for a month for when the police would come to the door he would run up a ladder and jump down at the back and a hundred men could not catch him for he would run athough of them and then anyone would not be able to catch come up to him for he would run a quickly as a deer.
- Collector
- Tomás Mac Conmara
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockanena, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Namara
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Knockanena, Co. Clare
