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School: Seosamh Naomhtha (roll number 16640)

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Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
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An Bráthair Naiti
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1028, Page 29

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    “About nintey years ago in a house in Ballymagrorty about a mile from Ballintra a crowd of fifty Protestants were gathered to shoot a priest names Father Dan Kelly.”

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    About ninety years ago in a house in Ballymagrorty about a mile from Ballintra a crowd of fifty Protestants were gathered to shoot a priest named Father Dan Kelly. This priest had said something against the Protestants. He was parish priest of Drumholm. When he was told that they were coming to shoot him he said not to mind that they would not come that night.
    When the order was given to the Protestants to lift their guns they found that they were unable to do so. But on asking the girls of the house to lift the guns they found that they could lift them as they liked.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
    2. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    J. P. Walls
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballintra, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    J. Walls
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 50
    Address
    Ballintra, Co. Donegal