School: St Boden's, Culdaff
- Location:
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 156
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- One night a man was coming home at half-past ten and he thought he saw a black man beyond him, and when he looked again he saw it was stooped, he then saw it jumping and it had feet like a cow so he made the 'sign of the cross' and it disappeared and ever after this people were afraid to pass this place at night.
- Collector
- Grace Long
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Brigid Mc Colgan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Laraghirril, Co. Donegal
- Mr Fleming was the first to get a bicycle about Culdaff and it was the first anyone about the village saw. It was a penny farthing-bike with a big wheel in front and a tiny wheel behind. One day a little boy came to his father calling to his father, "daddy a kicking man," his father looked out and saw Mr Fleming passing(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Grace Long
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Brigid Mc Colgan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Laraghirril, Co. Donegal
