School: Derries (roll number 11388)
- Location:
- Derries, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Meadhbh Bean Uí Chiaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1033, Page 017
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- (continued from previous page)The people in Lignanorig [?] are all young now, only one old man whose name is Tom Farrell. This man is over eighty years of age, and he lives alone in a small thatched house. He works very hard and he is never ill except for a cold, and he attends church every Sunday. This man cannot speak Irish, because there was no Irish taught when he was at school. There is a story told long ago about a bag or pot gold hidden in a field in the Derries. Long ago a man came riding on a horse as far as a certain house a piece away from this field. He tied his horse to a tree and took a bag of gold with him and came down the road, a bit(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Duncan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Legnanornoge, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr Robert Duncan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derries, Co. Donegal
