School: Stranorlar
- Location:
- Stranorlar, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Giolla Chomhghaill
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- In the penal days the soldiers used to kill all the priests they could find.
As a priest was teaching the people, he lit a red candle, some of the grease fell to the ground. Just where the grease fell a well sprang up. When the soldiers came along they fell in one after another into the well. The soldiers were well tricked.- Collector
- Mary O' Callaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Stranorlar, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Peter Bradley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Stranorlar, Co. Donegal