School: Ráth Séideóg (roll number 8786)
- Location:
- Rashedoge, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Brighid Ní Dhomhnaill
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1104, Page 35
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- (continued from previous page)were four bushes which grew like a bed. One day a man was cutting posts and he cut them. When he went home that night he got very ill and he died shortly afterwards.
- There is a holy well down at Conwall. One day the man was ploughing the field beside it, and he tried to plough it up, but the two horses fell and broke their legs. They had to be shot that night.
- Collector
- Nora Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Foxhall, Co. Donegal
- One day Colum Cille was walking along the road, and he was very thirsty. He came to a stream where there were ducks swimming about, and the water was dirty. Colum Cill waved his hand upwards and ever since the stream flows up. Then he got a drink.
- A man went to plough a graveyard and the two horses broke their legs.
- If you wander at night turn your coat inside out, and you will find the right path again.
