School: Lathaigh (Laghey)
- Location:
- Laghy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Proinsias Mac Pháidín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1032, Page 098
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- (continued from previous page)and actually caught him saying Mass. They dragged him out to the road side on the brae and murdered him there which gives the name Red Brae. Red because the priest blood was shed on it.
- Down in yon meadow there is a chest. In the chest there is a cup.
In the cup there is a drop and the whole world get a cup of that. Answer deathWhat is it that you wouldn’t like to have but if you had it you wouldn’t like to loose it.
Answer a bald head(continues on next page) - Collector
- Maggie Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Greaghs, Co. Donegal
