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School: Kerrykeel (roll number 6849)

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Carrowkeel, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Séamus Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1086, Page 222

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    “Some of the old people believe in water bulls.”

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    at the poteen making for a couple of days and nights. On the second night as he was sitting attending to the distilling operation he says he saw a large black bull come out of the lake and come up to the still house where it drank the contents of a tub which was outside the door of the house. It then returned to the lake and disappeared under the water. Green was greatly frightened so much so that he was afraid to go home because to do so he woud have to pass the lake into which the bull had gone. Instead he came down the other side of the hill and went to the house of a friend where he went to bed and slept for 28 hours.
    It is said he made no more poteen.
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    “The oldest people around here tell me that they have always heard about finding a horse shoe being lucky and the spilling of salt or the breaking of a looking glass being unlucky.”

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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Séamus Mac Gabhann
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Múinteoir
    Informant
    Cormac Logue
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    74
    Address
    Ranny, Co. Donegal