School: Trí Trian (Three Trees) (roll number 2680)
- Location:
- Three Trees, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Caitlín A. Scott
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1113, Page 401
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- An old story is told a bout the Saviour passing through a field on our farm.
when he was followed by the Jew's.
A man whose name is now unknown was supposed to be sowing grain in the field. He saw a man coming towards him.
The met at a well which was in the field and the stranger asked a drink.
The man had no bowl or pan with him.
So he went to the sack which held his seed and brought a wooden noggen which he had for lifting the seed out of the sack into his sheet and gave the stranger a drink. After drinking he blessed the man and told him that the well would never go dry.
The stranger then told the man if any one came along asking(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Quigley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Three Trees, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Rebecca Quigley
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Three Trees, Co. Donegal
