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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- (continued from previous page)treasure of gold sovereigns in the bed of the river, and took his servant home blindfolded.
- 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)
- Collector
- Margaret Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Eskaheen, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- James Doherty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Eskaheen, Co. Donegal
