School: Más an Easa (B.) (roll number 14775)
- Location:
- Masiness, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Prionnseas Mac Carraigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1075, Page 148
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- (continued from previous page)and drove them away, and ate Maolmurrough alive.
Then the old white crow screamed, "Throw away the 'bata buidhe" for it was it that killed my children two years ago"
It is said that this is why Maolmurrough was called "Maolmurrough an Bhata Bhuidhe."
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“In the days when Maolmurrough lived at Doe Castle he had many horses.”
In the days when Maolmurrough lived at Doe Castle he had many horses. He had a stable-boy named McBride from Ballymore. One night he went to feed the horses, he had only one light which went out when he entered the stable. Then, all of a sudden, he saw a woman come in with a lamb in her hand. She said "Feed the horses quick, for it will be your last time." Then she disappeared.
McBride became so terrified that he lay at the horses' head all night. He went home and died a week later. - Collector
- Joseph Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mandy Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Magheraroarty, Co. Donegal
