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School: Gleann Tochair (roll number 16611)

Location:
Glentogher, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
An tSr. Sorcha A. Ní Dhómhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1115, Page 339

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    There was an old gentleman one time and his wife living very happily near the plantation at the head of Glentogher. They had twelve sons and no daughter.
    One day the wife was standing at the window. The snow lay deep on the ground and a raven was scraping it. The wife sighed and said, "I wish I had a daughter as white as snow and her hair as black as a raven. A fairy women. heard her saying this and she said that her request would be granted.
    About a year after that a daughter was born just as she had
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