School: Gort na Carraige (Rockfield) (roll number 9009)
- Location:
- Knocknashangan, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Nóra Nic Aodhagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1029, Page 103
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- E’re last night about three weeks ago I received a letter of an old hag’s death and every tear that came from the back part of my heart would split seven fathoms of a turf bank or set a mill a going.
So I started off, put my two shin bones in my pocket and my head under my arm, and who did I meet but my Grandfather threshing peas. One pea hopped over a six-foot wall, hit a dead dog that was barking at a pock marked cat and she knitting a pair of stockings for the moon. I gave him a kick and turned him inside out but he only barked at me.
Further on, I went through a cabbage field and the stalks were as long as from Patrick’s Day to America and every one of them bleeding from both nostrils. I met a man and asked him the road to Molly Maguires and he told me she lived upon a high hill, down in a low hollow, where the cocks never crew, where the winds never blew and where there were nineteen families all living together.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ethna Keegan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Templenew, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Pat Mulhern
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Lissacholly, Co. Donegal
