School: Scoil na gCeithre Máighistrí, Dún na nGall (roll number 14247)
- Location:
- Copany, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cathal Mag Fhionntaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1035, Page 217
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- Once there was a man living alone. One day he was building a house. When he had the house built he went to look for thatch. He came upon a mound where there were good long rushes. He mowed the rushes and thatched the house. One night as he was sitting alone in the house a small man came in and sat down. The man asked him what did he want and he said that he took the thatch off his house and he would stay here until he would leave(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní hÁille
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Tom Travers
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumadoney, Co. Donegal
