School: Más an Easa (C.) (roll number 14776)

Location:
Masiness, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Máire Ní Cholchuin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1075, Page 280

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    Cloone graveyard, and the fairy disappeared.
    They looked around but horse and all were gone. The then saw the "Two Big Boots" under a tomb stone, and they knew they belonged to Bootsy.
    They cut off the shoes, and ever afterward that tombstone is called "Bootsy's Tombstone". The leather is still to be seen where the shoe-maker lived.
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