School: Niall Mór (roll number 11843)

Location:
Killybegs, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
B. Mac Niallghuis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1039, Page 268

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  1. Story (continued)

    Their was an old woman living in Bridge Street Killybegs up until a few years ago when her death took place and she used to tell this story very often about her father. She said that one day her father was in the bog an due found a large pair of white Ros

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    and the old womans name was Brigid Mc Nelis but she said that when her father was dying he gave the beads to her older sister Mary and nobody knows what she did with them but it is said that plenty of people was cured with them. The old woman that told this story died at the age of eighty years.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
        1. soothsayers (~116)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Moira Molloy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Killybegs, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mrs Molloy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Killybegs, Co. Donegal