School: St Boden's, Culdaff
- Location:
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 210
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- (continued from previous page)tree because he wanted to set other bushes there, and the tree was "in his way". So the tree was cut, and he gathered the small pieces of the tree and put them into his shed.
He left the three largest of the branches lying against the ditch because night fell, and he was unable to work any longer. Next day he went down to chop the three branches but they were twisted around the tree trunk of the tree.
So he never touched them but he went and told a man that lived close by. This man told him that he should not "of touched" the tree, because he heard his father saying that in days of old the fairies surrounded this tree, and he should not have cut the tree.
This tree can still be seen twisted around the tree trunck on the top of the march ditch.
- Collector
- Kathleen Mc Colgan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Charles Mc Colgan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
