School: Cooley
- Location:
- Cooly, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Beoláin
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- (continued from previous page)her home. Her father and mother would not believe that she was their daughter so Jamie told them all that had happened. When Jamie was finished they believed the story for the girl had a ring which her father had given her.Jamie and the lady were married after that and he never went back to the fairies castle.
- It is almost impossible to drive a pig against the wind because they can see the wind.When it is raining a horse turns his back to the rain. If a cat sits with his back to the fire there is going to be rain.Crickets sing louder when rain is approaching.Cows stay near the shelter of the hedge when there is bad weather near.Seagull, seagull, stay near the strand because it will rain if you come to land. The swallows fly very low when rain is near.
- Collector
- Ruby Gibson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gulladoo, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr Steen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moville, Co. Donegal
