School: Cúl an Dasain (Cooladawson) (roll number 1620)
- Location:
- Cooladawson, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig Mag Uidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1100, Page 62
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- (continued from previous page)and it is thought he always came back to guard the collar from being stolen.
- At a place called Drumennon some years ago, a man called John Gibson quarried stones there.
When coming home from his work one night he saw a little woman sitting in his own yard. He spoke to her but she did not answer. He went into the house and grasped the tongs. He came out again and hit the woman on the back, and she gave a large screech and rolled down the street.
Next morning when he went to the quarry a charge of dynamite exploded which did not explode the day before, and blew him away and broke his two thigh bones, and the same screech was heard as the little woman gave the night before. - Informant
- Mrs S Lucas
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- Gender
- Female
