School: Gaduidhe Dubh (C.)
- Location:
- Gaddyduff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cáitlín Ní Mhiothagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1121, Page 250
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“About two years ago the Cloontagh men were making a new road through the bog.”
About two years ago the Cloontagh men were making a new road through the bog. It took them a very long time to complete it and a hard task it was. When they had gone a certain distance on the making of it they met with a hard square piece of ground very near to the edge of the road.
They took a lot of time and were in no hurry. When they came to it a few of them who had got the part to do, dug it all up and found a lot of bones in the square part. It is said that this was the body of a man who was seen some distance away in the hands of other men(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid M. Harkin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clehagh, Co. Donegal