School: Leitir Mhic an Bhaird (Robertson) (roll number 15283)
- Location:
- Leitir Mhic an Bhaird, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Nábla Nic Amhlaidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1054, Page 398
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“It is said that there was a child buried in Matthew Morrow's hill.”
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- Nábla Nic Amhlaidhé
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
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- Matthew Morrow
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mín an Ghabhann, Co. Donegal
- “Story connected with the graveyard”.Before anyone was buried in the Protestant graveyard Matthew Morrow cut and saved the grass in it. That is he made hay.
One summer he had the grass cut and it was ready to be put in hand-cocks as the weather was nice and dry. After Matthew was a couple of hours in bed one night his father wakened him and asked him to go up and put up the hay in cocks as he believed the rain was coming. I think he had a few up that evening before this and he was going to put up the remainder. Matthew got out of bed dressed and took the rake and fork and started off(continues on next page)
