School: Carnamoyle (roll number 7344)
- Location:
- Carnamoyle, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Hugh Mc Kee Fleck
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1113, Page 450
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - A man and his wife lived together in Drumskellan, Parish of Muff, County Donegal. The woman got a prize hen as a present. They had a garden of potatoes in front of the house. The hen had a habit of going into the garden to scrap at the potatoes. She was in them one day and the man threw a stone and killed her. He told his wife what he had done and she was very angry. She roasted the hen and said not a bite of it would he taste. When the hen was roasted she put it on a plate and locked it in a press. She went out then to to ask some(continues on next page)
