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“The old people around Bundoran have many old cures. This is one of them. If two people of the same name marry their children have a cure for the mumps...”

CBÉS 1027

Mr Peter Daly, Patrick Mc Aleer

Bundoran, Co. Donegal

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“On the summit of the hill overlooking Finner graveyard is a large mound locally called Fliencter. Tradition tells us that a boy named Kerrigan was taken away by the fairies...”

CBÉS 1027

Mrs Mc Aleer, Patrick Mc Aleer

Finner, Co. Donegal

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“In the Ross about 1 3/4 miles from Bundoran there is a fort with a bush growing on it. One day a man named Dan Loughlin was cutting it when an old woman appeared and told him to go home...”

CBÉS 1027

Mrs Mc Aleer, Patrick Mc Aleer

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“There is a field in Ardfarna and there are stray sods on it. A man named Jim Scallan was walking through the field when he walked on one of the stray sods...”

CBÉS 1027

Mrs Mc Aleer, Patrick Mc Aleer

Ardfarn, Co. Donegal

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“A man was coming home one night from playing cards. When he was crossing a field he walked on a stray sod and he couldn't get out of the field...”

CBÉS 1027

James Daly, Patrick Mc Aleer

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“In the Rock of Bundoran in a field (William Travers's) there is a large Mass stone with a holy-water font carved in it...”

CBÉS 1027

Patrick Mc Aleer, Peter Daly

Bundoran, Co. Donegal

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“There is a well in Tullaghan and the people used say it was sacred. One day a woman went to take water out of the wall...”

CBÉS 1027

Patrick Mc Aleer, Peter Daly

Tullaghan, Co. Leitrim

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“There is a well above Tullaghan called St Patrick's Well. People go there on St Patrick's day and they leave money and other things at it...”

CBÉS 1027

Patrick Mc Aleer, Peter Daly

Tullaghan, Co. Leitrim

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“In the town of Bundoran there is a little stream called "Sruth na Folla" (The stream of Blood"). It is supposed to have got its name from a battle that was fought beside it...”

CBÉS 1027

James Daly, Patrick Mc Aleer

Bundoran, Co. Donegal

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“About two miles from Bundoran there is a well in a place called Ashbrook. Long ago there was a monastery beside it...”

CBÉS 1027

Jimmy Daly, Patrick Mc Aleer

Bundoran, Co. Donegal

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“In the Ross, Bundoran there was a man named Patrick Daly. One day he disappeared and the people said he was taken away by the fairies...”

CBÉS 1027

Dan Gilbride, Patrick Mc Aleer

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