School: Dromlachan
- Location:
- Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0221, Page 349
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- (continued from previous page)but the strange thing was that they couldn't see anybody. The crowd passed by and went down towards the lough, and they heard a woman scream and voices shouted three times "She's a drowning". They were real afraid then but they said they'd bring the stone if all the devils in the country came at them. So they started and they heard nothing more and brought the stone home. The next morning they were telling their mother about their experience the night before, and she told them to leave back the stone, that they had no right to take it. They went out to bring back the stone. They left it in a cart house the night before, but what was their surprise to find when they went out that the stone was gone, and they never saw it afterwards.
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- Collector
- P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Revd Michael M. Kiernan
- Gender
- Male
