School: An Caiseal Árd (roll number 16442)
- Location:
- Cashelard, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraic M. Mac Gongail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1030, Page 160
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“There (are) is a lake in this district surrounded by high hills, and the name of it is Lough Colmcille.”
(continued from previous page)of them. After a hard battle which lasted for half an hour he was getting him nearer the shore. The boy was about to lift the landing net when he land-ed him on the shore. When the boy saw what was on the rod he droped all and off as fast as a deer. On Devenney making his escape he slipped and fell. When he got up this huge animal was standing on the shore. He had the appearance of a monkey but was four times as big. He had eyes about the size of glass marbles and had a coat of armour. It was the colour of copper and when he moved there was a terrible noise. He had a two peaked cap, very much like the police-men’s caps they used to wear long ago. He looked very lone-some and grinned sometimes at Devenney. They watched other for half an hour, and every(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bella Devenny
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Brian Devenny
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Cashelard, Co. Donegal