School: Leitir Mhic an Bhaird (Robertson) (roll number 15283)
- Location:
- Leitir Mhic an Bhaird, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Nábla Nic Amhlaidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1054, Page 419
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- (continued from previous page)down the fields in sight of the water. Thomas and Pat were going up to the island that day for the wrack. Pat looked towards the place where the boat was lying and could he see anything but the keel of the boat. The two sides were gone. Down he rushed and he saw the boards of the sides lying here and there under a sphynk. “In the name of goodness” says he to himself what enemies have I that would such a thing. With that all the boards came flying past him and jumped into the right places. The boat was left whole. Thomas & he started off for a load of wrack when the tide was in. The water was a calm as milk on a floor. Pat never told about what he had seen in the morning.
Everything went well until they were coming back a few yards from Gweebarra Bay. The sea all of a sudden got very rough. The boat was being thrown from one side to another. All of a sudden she began to go flying around. Pat and Thomas cleared. The boat struck the Bridge and was made in atoms. Pat believes that the Fairies were trying to persuade him to not go out that day.Pat says that one day he was in his own field working and his sister called him for his tea. “The devil away he could get” he says. As he would go to go through the slap they would pull him back but he didn’t see them.
- Collector
- Nábla Nic Amhlaidhé
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
