School: Baile an tSratha (roll number 17014)
- Location:
- Ballintra, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Séarlus S. Ua Baoighill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1031, Page 236
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- In the parish of Drumhome and in the townland of Ballinagippen, there is a place Brownhall. It is the residence of Captain Hamilton. There is a place called Peter’s Leap in Brownhall. It is called Peter’s Leap, because a man called Peter Carron leaped into a hole there and ever afterwards it held this name.
In the same place there is a cave called The Piper’s Cave. It is called The Piper’s Cave because at one time there was an old piper who went up to a wedding in the residence.
When he was going home he lost his way. People say that when he was a week missing, he was heard under the ground playing his pipes. The Tune he played was “The Farther in the Deeper.”
- Collector
- Mollie Toland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballintra, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr Bob Toland
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Ballintra, Co. Donegal
