School: Drumfries (roll number 1572)
- Location:
- Drumfree, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: P. E. Ó Dubhthaigh
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Drumfries
- XML Page 196
- XML “The Golden Ring”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Some fifty years ago a woman from Drumfries died. Before she died she ordered that her four good woolen blankets and her golden ring should be sent in the coffin with her. When she died, her blankets and ring were sent with her. Two silly men thought it was a shame to let good gold and good woolen to go to loss, so they said they would dig the grave in the middle of the night. When midnight came the ment went to dig the grave. When they opened the coffin the took out the blankets and left them on the ground. When they went back to take the ring they couldn't take it off her(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Neil Gill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carroghill, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Edward Kavanagh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 68
- Address
- Carroghill, Co. Donegal