School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1076, Page 391
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- (continued from previous page)Wilkinson did he see a priest pass that way. He replied no and they never suspected that he was hiding him. Next morning the priest gave Wilkinson his blessing. He also said that a person named Wilkinson would never know a days poverty.
There was a man named Edward Gallagher from Horn Head who was in jail during the Penal days.
A party of men collected to chase the tithe-collector at that time. They lay in wait at the Sally-garden, Mc Colgan's, Sandhill, Dunfanaghy. When the yeomen arrived a fierce fight ensued and the yeomen were defeated. Edward Gallagher took the rifle from one of the Yeomen and broke it across the landlord's horse's back. He got six months in jail for this and so also did Charles Collins of Feymore, Creeslough.
Knocknafaugher means the hill of the watch and it is supposed to be called that because of a Mass-rock in the land of Tim Brogan in that town-land. When the Mass was being celebrated people used to be on the watch for English soldiers.
There is a Mass-rock in the land of the Friel's, Sandhill, Dunfanaghy.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Laetitia Coll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Breaghy, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Edward Coll
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Breaghy, Co. Donegal
