School: Trí Trian (Three Trees) (roll number 2680)

Location:
Three Trees, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Caitlín A. Scott
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    about him to tell that he passed when he was sowing the seed on the field.
    The man went home to his wife overjoyed and and told her he had seen the Saviour and they would never want or the well would never go dry.
    Three days later when the man rose in the morning. The field of grain was ripe to hearvest.
    He started cutting the grain and the Jew's came along and asked him if he saw a man passing along this way.
    The man told them that he passed by when he was sowing the seed on the field.
    So they did not go any further to look for him.
    The well is still in the field, but it was drained to one side off the field by William Quigley in the year 1915. There is another holy well on the farm next to ours called Tober Patrick which
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Quigley
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Three Trees, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mrs Rebecca Quigley
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Three Trees, Co. Donegal