School: Lathaigh (Laghey)
- Location:
- Laghy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Proinsias Mac Pháidín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1032, Page 140
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- (continued from previous page)eighty year old men and women can remember to see it inhabited.
A Mr Foster owned it and he loved to reside there.
One could only wonder at this because of its great distance from roads or towns. He came and went by boat mostly. The doorless and window less building looks very lonely now but even so lately as fifteen years ago quite a quantity of beautiful woodwork such as doors and flooring and staircases was removed by boat at night to be used in house building. Flags tiles spouting from Belles Isle can be seen in numbers of houses and the great doors had to be cut down and altered(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Monica Connolly
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- James Likely
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
