School: Scoil na gCeithre Máighistrí, Dún na nGall (roll number 14247)
- Location:
- Copany, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cathal Mag Fhionntaigh

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1035, Page 251
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- One night an old woman was coming home from the town of Donegal. It was just getting dark as she was crossing a bridge she saw a big black man standing before her on the road. She went into the road-side to let him pass but he stood before her and would not allow her to pass. She stopped to get a stone at him, but when she lifted it the man disappeared. She thought she left down the stone but next morning when she awoke the stone was in her hand.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Nígh Áille
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumadoney, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Bernard Hilley
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumadoney, Co. Donegal