School: Naomh Colmcille, Leitir Cheanainn
- Location:
- Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: An Mháthair Ignatius Ní Bhroin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1083, Page 017
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- (continued from previous page)open, and beautiful little stones were got inside it. One night before an old man died a bean ? was heard on the bank of the little river. The people were amazed when they heard the crying, but the old man said not to be afraid, it was a sign of death in the district, and a few hours later he died, there was great sorrow when his friends thought of his last words. For a long time after this the bean ? cried when anyone out of the neighbourhood was going to die. Ever since this lilttle river and the rocks have been called the fairy rocks.
