School: St Mary's, Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Bhraonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 510
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“Somewhere in Donegal there is a hill where Fionn Mac Cumail and his best warriors are supposed to be sleeping.”
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SOmewhere in Donegal there is a hill where Fionn Mac Cumail and his best warriors are supposed to be sleeping.
One day a man was walking along this hill and he noticed a hole that he never remembered seeing before.
All of a sudden he thought of the stories his mother had told him when he was a little boy about the warriors who were in this hill, but the entrance could never be found as it was hidden by the druids from the eyes of men.
He began to feel very curious and wished to know what was inside. He went in, and the further he went the hole grew the larger.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Elizabeth Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr Owen Dohery
- Other names
- Mr Owen Dohery
- Roe
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal