School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1077, Page 187
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“There were two women long ago and they lived together. One of them was rich and the other was very poor.”
(continued from previous page)the dew was on the grass she went to the mountains to gather clods. When she was gathering the rock opened and a man came out. The woman told him what she was doing and he told her to come in and he would give her a bag of gold. In she went so he filled the bag for her and when she came home, the rich woman tried to find out how she got it and the poor woman told her. The rich woman set out one morning to try her luck. She went to the same mountain and gathered clods and the same man came out to her and she told him how poor she was. He took her in and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Philomena Mc Nulty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocknafaugher, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- P. Mac Lean
- Gender
- Unknown
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Knocknafaugher, Co. Donegal