School: St Boden's, Culdaff
- Location:
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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- (continued from previous page)box, he opened it and found it full of corn and it was as fresh as the day it was put into the box.He took it home and sowed it and in three "week's time" the corn was ready for cutting. He cut the corn and put it into his barn.Ever since, nothing would grow in the field so it is lying there waste and is well known by the Culdaff people.
- Once upon a time there were four or five men cutting corn in a field down at Joe Wilkies. One evening there came a cockroach over the field and it was carrying corn over behind the ditch. One of the men was watching the cockroach carrying away the corn(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Shiels
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mary Ann Long
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Laraghirril, Co. Donegal