School: Convent of Mercy, Moville (roll number 9278)
- Location:
- Moville, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Sr. Celestine Clarke
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- (continued from previous page)The news of this strange happening went round the town and the people said that what happened was a sign of some coming disaster. About a month after that a fishing boat was lost near Moville and five men drowned, two of whom were father and son.
- One day a man, who lived in Moville, was coming one moonlight night from a friend's house. When he reached a glen, called Mossy Glen, he saw a little man sitting on a clay fence. He was dressed in light green trousers and white coat and green cap. He jumped up when the man saw him and gave a strange kind of musical cry. At once a crowd of little men like him came running out of the fence, and quite suddenly they all ran(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rita Mc Gowan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carnagarve, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mrs Treacy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moville, Co. Donegal