School: St Columba's, Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eoghan Ua Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 129
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- (continued from previous page)and he never came back.A few years after this the blacksmith died and he would not get to heaven for he never wished to get. The devil would not let him into hell for he was afraid of him. So they decided to give him a light and let him wander through the world. This man is now called Will o' the Wisp.
- One night a man named James Lynch was going home from the town with a tub on his back. When he was a bout a mile from the town he saw a man coming towards him. About an hour before that he had won money playing cards.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Charles Mc Laughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Mc Gilloway
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghilly and Lenynarnan, Co. Donegal
