School: Leitir Mhic an Bhaird (Robertson) (roll number 15283)
- Location:
- Leitir Mhic an Bhaird, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Nábla Nic Amhlaidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1054, Page 415
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- One time a man in this district found out that somebody was milking his cows during the night as they had no milk when he went to milk them in the morning. A friend of his advised him to sit up and watch. This he did and he saw nothing but a hare somewhere near the Byre. He had his gun with him and he fired a shot at the hare and wounded it but that in all the hare got away.
I happened that there was a woman in the district who was supposed to be able to turn herself into a witch. Day after the shooting took place this woman was seen outside and she was lame. The same woman was lame until the day she died.There is supposed to be a giant's grave in Farrigans in Mrs Elliot's land.There was a very large stone outside Cannon's house in Rooskey and it is said that it was a giant's wife who carried it in her apron and left it in Rooskey.
- Collector
- Nábla Nic Amhlaidhe
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- Mrs Cannon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Roosky, Co. Donegal
