School: Glentidaly (roll number 9983)
- Location:
- Glentidaly, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. M. Heron
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- Once upon a time there was an old woman who lived between Milford and Kerrykeel at a place called Glack and her name was Nancy Scott.
This old house is not occupied by a man named Brown.
Everyone she had a spite at she blinked their cows and in blinking the cows she took the milk from them.
One man she had a spite and she took the milk from his cow. He and his friend resolved to make her bring back the milk to his cow.
They put a sod in the chimney and barred the door and followed her through the house and said they would cut her head off with a fir hatchet if she wouldn't bring back the milk to his cow.
One time she was sitting dozing at the fire and her son-in-law was(continues on next page)- Collector
- Scott Stevenson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballygay, Co. Donegal