School: Killygordon (roll number 11585)
- Location:
- Killygordon, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. Eibhlín Ní Loinsigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1099, Page 296
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- This is a story my father told me. There is a place called Woodland Glen.
In this glen there is a large burn, that runs into the river Finn, there is a large whirl pool in it.
There was an old landlord called James Johnston He went in to this whirl pool to bathe, he took weak and could not get out. Some of his own men heard him and got him out.
A short time afterwards he was driving and the horse in his car was shot dead.
The man that was supposed to have shot him, come six years afterwards to Woodland looking for some case of law and the landlord remembered him(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Agnes Bates
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumevish, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Robert Bates
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Drumevish, Co. Donegal
