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School: Gleann Tochair (roll number 16611)

Location:
Glentogher, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
An tSr. Sorcha A. Ní Dhómhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1115, Page 319

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    fairy lunking about the house. On examining the spot where they were building he found, that they had been building on top of the fairies chimney.
    They flitted away to another spot and they began to build there. Each morning there was twice as much built as when they had left it the evening before.
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    Between sixty and seventy years ago two men were making Whiskey in a glen convenient to where we live. They worked steadily for a few moments when all of a sudden the stones began to bounce off the still and off themselves also.
    The men ran home greatly frightened and the stones bounced off
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    Language
    English
    Informant
    Denis Toland
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    64
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Glentogher, Co. Donegal