School: St Mary's, Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Bhraonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 457
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- (continued from previous page)While they were herding _ the boy asked the girls if she would like to see a castle, and she answered that she would, and that she would tell no one of what she would see.
Soon as they had entered this grand castle, Annie's granny called her for tea. She rushed out of the castle in answer to her Granny's call, and hurried home to her. leaving the boy and the woman behind in this castle.
On entering the house, her grandmother gave her tea, and she related to her, what she had seen, while out herding.
On her return to the hill to herd she again met the strange woman, and aboy who had been visitors in her grandmothers. They began to scold her for having told her granny what she had seen.
They said that she had promised to tell no one, and had broken her promise. They moved away from her, and she lost sight of them. Some noise attracted her attention, and she looked in the direction from which it appeared to come; but on looking back the woman and the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Donaghey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Annie Friel
- Other names
- Annie Friel
- Mrs Annie Donaghey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Occupation
- Pensioner
- Address
- Ballymagan Upper and Lower and Clonblosk, Co. Donegal
