School: Inis Mac ón Tír (roll number 12854)
- Location:
- Inis Mhic an Trír, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Muireann Bean Uí Chuinneagáin
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- Informant
- Andy Whelan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Inis Mhic an Trír, Co. na Gaillimhe
- On the 2nd June many years ago in Castlehacket near Headford, a goat hammered at a cottage door before the occupants of the house were up. The woman of the house got up tried to put him away. Instead he stuck his horns in her clothes and dragged her on to the next cottage. That (?) man got a pitchfork at the goat but he and the pitchfork got stuck also to the goat. He went along until he had about a dozen men and women stuck to him. He took them into a Lug(continues on next page)