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School: Castlefin

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Castlefinn, Co. Donegal
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Ailís E. Ní Bhaoighill Seosamh Ó Baoighill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1098, Page 293

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    hearse, and he was put down into the grave, then he was buried. A large tombstone was erected over his grave, and the date he died, and his age was carved on it. That happened about twenty five years ago, and his grave is about five miles outside the town of Glenties[?].
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    “Long ago near Castlefinn it is said that there was a King crowned on a very big stone and it is said it is at least ten feet in length and it is about six feet in breadth.”

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    Long ago near Castlefin it is said that there was a King crowned on a very big stone, and it is said it is at least ten feet in length, and it is about six feet in breadth. There are five steps up to the top of it on both sides, and there is a seat shaped like a chair on the top of it, and it was thrown there by a very strong chief named Finn Mac Cuimail long ago; The stones remains there still, and the man who owns the land tried to remove the stone, but every day he tried to remove the stone he either lost a sheep or a cow, and he never touched it again, and even when he ploughed near the land, in which the rock stood, he lost something very useful to him. So he also stopped ploughing the ground, because it was a great loss to him.
    Not very far from Castlefin there was a house, and about one hundred yards down from that house there was another house. The people in one house were jealous of the boy in the other, and this boy whom that the people were jealous of used to go to another house, and the people who were jealous of the boy in the first house had a boy going to this
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    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Edward Connolly
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