School: Baile an tSratha (roll number 17014)
- Location:
- Ballintra, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Séarlus S. Ua Baoighill
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1031, Page 193
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
Download
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Baile an tSratha
- XML Page 193
- XML “A Local Happening”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
A Local Happening
“About sixty years ago a man called Patrick Carron of Ballyalla Ballintra and his wife Margaret, where on their way home from a fair in Ballintra village.”
About sixty years ago a man called Patrick Carron of Ballyalla Ballintra and his wife Margaret, where on their way home from a fair in Ballintra village. On their way home they had to pass through a famous place called Brownhall.This place is the property of a rich man called Captain John Hamilton. It is a large estate, and is much wooded and has a number of dangerous caves and a few rivers under-ground. When these people were going by one of the caves Patrick stumbled and fell at the edge of the cave.His wife tried to pull him up but instead of getting him up but instead of getting him up she fell on her back into the cave. A large river flows through this cave so she was swept under ground by the force of the flood. The next day some people came out to search for them.They got Patrick lying at the edge of the cave, alive, but his wife was not got for weeks after. When she was found her body was under the ground. The force(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Mangan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballintra, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Mangan
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Ballintra, Co. Donegal