School: Killymard
- Location:
- Killymard, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Máire Nic Críosta
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1036, Page 089
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- (continued from previous page)In olden times when the meal was scarce when people were only allowed to get one pound of meal at a time, they used all gather to the one house and make a supper of bracan. There was a bray at the house and after that the bray got its name, the bracan bray, and the ruins of the old house are still to be seen.
- One night during the Winter season a squad of little people lit a fire round a certain bush in Drumlask about three miles outside(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Williamson
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Friary, Co. Donegal
