School: Drumaweir (roll number 5228)
- Location:
- Drumaweer, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Dómhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1119, Page 101
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- I went a few evenings ago to a man whose name is John Mclaughlin. He is over 90 years of age He lives in Drumaweir. he is living there this 40 years. I asked him did he know any folk-lore. He told me he did. This is what he told me. As told me when the priests hid in olden times. There is an old placed in Ballybrack Hill. It shows you the altars where they said Mass. The place is facing down to the shore. They had a place where they went in and got down to the church in Greencastle. One day they went out at 8 oclock to say 8 oclock Mass. On that day one of the priests was going in and when he was going in and he was caught by one of the soldiers. They made a well in the same place. The priest's footmark is to be seen there in the same place. People going to the hill drink out of this well. Then in the same place a stone is as flat as an alter cloth. Ballybrack hill is full of places where priests hid and people too. This is to be found in Cruckcalling to this day a lot of people came to see it
- Collector
- Nellie Carney
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Mc Laughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- Over 90
