School: Derries (roll number 11388)
- Location:
- Derries, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Meadhbh Bean Uí Chiaráin

Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1033, Page 019
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Derries
- XML Page 019
- XML “My Own District”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- My own District is Carnhugh. There are some lakes in my District. There are not so many people living in it now as what used to live in it in days gone by.
There are not so many slate houses in my District as thatched ones. There are none of the people in my district can speak Irish because there were no Irish long ago when other people were at school.
There are not so many old men and women living now as what used to live in it. There are only a few living now and they are over seventy and eighty years of age. There are fairies supposed to be seen on a mountain in my District the name of Durahine [?].(continues on next page)- Collector
- Anabella Farrell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glasskeeragh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr Edward Farell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile an tSratha, Co. Donegal