School: Coillín Aodha (B.)
- Location:
- Culleens, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Ceallaigh
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- There is a rock in séan bháile in Cullens Co Sligo. There was an Indian chief named Red Cloud, he had a son named Red Foot. Red Foot died and he was buried under the rock.
About five thousand years ago the Indians brought stone axes, flint knives and arrow heads with them to Ireland. Some of them are found now and again.
There was a tribe of people called the Mick Mack Indians of Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia was the first name Ireland had.
Dr. Douglas Hyde went into an Indian's hut on the banks of Lake Superior. The Indian told him a story about his ancestors for thousand of years back. Some years later when Dr. Douglas Hyde was in the west of Roscommon he met a man there who told him the very same story word for word as the Indian told it, and said it was about his generations.
Some say that Indians were the first people to live in Ireland and that they came from the west. The Indians were wrongly called Firbolg Fomorians an Dedannans.
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- Mr James Gordon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Occupations
- Farmer
- Shopkeeper
- Address
- Ballyogan, Co. Sligo