School: St Boden's, Culdaff
- Location:
- Cúil Dabhcha, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 206
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- In this parish of Culdaff there lived a man who had four sheep. In the field where the sheep were there was a rock. The man who owned the sheep was working in the field where the sheep was grazing one day.
In the evening he went home for his tea. When he returned the sheep were gone, leaving no trace behind them. At this the man wondered greatly. He searched the neighbourhood, but he could not find them. Then he thought that they might be under a big rock that was in the field, and he said "I will blow away the rock if I don't get them."
The next time he went to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Daniel Noone
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Pat Mc Daid
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Dunross, Co. Dhún na nGall
