School: Clochar na Trócaire, Carn Domhnaigh (roll number 16821)
- Location:
- Ballylosky, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Beirín Ní Bhaoighill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1114, Page 266
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Long ago there were two neighbour women living in Moneydarragh, Culdaff. There was a man dead in the neighbourhood and the two women decided to go to the corpse house together. They said they would finish the work before they would go.
One of the women went to milk the cows, but she was not long milking when a big black cat came into the byre. The woman chased her four times in succession but the cat came back again. She hit her on the head with a tin pan and then she ran away quickly. When she had the milking finished she went into the house and got ready to go to the corphouse. Then she went into the neighbour's house to see if the other(continues on next page)
