School: St Boden's, Culdaff

Location:
Culdaff, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 216

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 216

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  2. Once upon a time in this part of Inishowen there lived a man named Anderson. He had a flour mill. He died and the men that "was" working in it saw him after he died.
    There was one man named Kane who worked all night wheeling bags of flour and building it in the corner; so he got tired and lay down on the floor. He did not lie long till some body caught him and held him over a fire till he burned the eye-brows and the beard off him. Then the priest put the miller's ghost
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