School: Lathaigh (Laghey)

Location:
Laghy, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Proinsias Mac Pháidín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1032, Page 147

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    trying to get it. It pulled him in but he was not drownded. The animal looked back and then dissapeared. Some time afterwards the same man who caught the same animal took a terrible cold and died.
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  2. One day when I was up in Quinn’s of Tummon Cormack started to talk about the lough. He said that one evening when he was coming (when he w home) home from Ballyshannon he saw a donkey coming out of the lough and grazing on the side of the lough. He stayed out on the side for ten
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Monica Connolly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Mullanasole, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Cormack Quinn
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Trumman East, Co. Donegal