School: Behey (roll number 8222)
- Location:
- Behy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Meadhbh, Bean Uí Dhochartaigh
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- (continued from previous page)curled up its tail in its mouth and rolled and rolled after the man for all the world like a hoop in motion. The man ran faster and faster until he reached home but he never knew what because of the eel. It is said that the eel returned to the hole. Jimmy Monaghan is dead about forty years. Samual Connally supplied this story.
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- Informant
- Samuel Connolly
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Tullyhorky, Co. Donegal
- William Armstrong, an extensive farmer and cattle dealer of Parkhill near Ballyshannon was travelling late at night from the(continues on next page)
