School: Teampull Dubhglaise (roll number 6968)
- Location:
- Drumbologe, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán C. Ó Dómhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1083, Page 143
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“A little fairy woman with a wee red cloak on her appeared one time.”
(continued from previous page)the Dispensary.The woman of the house got cross and answered "I'm afraid your telling lies".The little woman got up and went away. Although she could not enter or leave the house without passing three men who were working on the land "not one of them saw her".The baby became sick and pined every day. When it was almost dead the same little woman came in to the house and asked for a handkerchief for her head. The woman of the house gave her the handkerchief. Then the fairy asked how is the child.The woman answered it never did a "day's good" since you were here.So the little woman went up to the cradle and looked in and said "it will be all right now" She went away and the baby improved every day after that and is now an old man living in Scotland.
- About one hundred yards east of Churchill Station on a flat rock is the track of two bare feet.We are told that St. Colmcille left these impressions on this rock on an occasion when he leapt from the top of Cnuic-a-Toighe.(continues on next page)
