School: St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh
- Location:
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: An Br. S. Ó Murchadha
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In the abbey there lived a man named Black. One night he went to the shore for a cart of wrack. As he was close to the shore he saw a crowd of small men playing cards. Two of the small men fell out, and soon they were all fighting. They left their money on the tables and he ran and gathered it, and in about ten minutes he had his cart filled with money. As he was about fifty yards from his house the cock crew. He looked back and saw his cart full of manure. - Collector
- Thomas Cleary
- Gender
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- Address
- Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
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- Mr O' Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Address
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