School: Dumha-chaisil
- Location:
- Ballindoo or Doocastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Dubhda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0117, Page 243
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- (continued from previous page)because a man named Finan used to fish there, and catch forty perch every morning before his break-fast.It is supposed to have been thrown there from Keash by a giant. It is about four feet high and the track of his five fingers are to be seen on it yet.
(2) Pat Hunt of Doobeg and Pat Conlon of Cloonakillena and a man the name of Mannion were on time making a road along Cloonakillena Lake.They were working some time when they came to a lone bush opposite Conlon's house. This bush is a hawthorn and still is green all the year round, and strange to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen O' Dowd
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doobeg, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Pat Hunt
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Doobeg, Co. Sligo
