School: Gleann Tochair (roll number 16611)
- Location:
- Glentogher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: An tSr. Sorcha A. Ní Dhómhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1115, Page 346
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- (continued from previous page)was very sorrowful looking. The man said to her "what makes you so sad?" She said "Yonder lies a mountain where all the costly diamonds grow and when I think of it, it makes me sad for no man can reach it except the birds and flies.
He said "if that is all I will soon take you there". He drew his cloak about them and there they were on the rock. They gathered plenty of diamonds and he was very tired. He lay down and fell asleep. Then they got the cloak and wished themselves home again. When he awoke he didn't know what to do so he travelled on until he came to a garden. There was a good deal of salad in it. He ate some and immediately he was turned into a donkey. Then he went and ate another kinds of salad for he was still very hungry and he found his own shape again. Next morning he took two heads of it, both good and bad(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Susie Mac Cole
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- White House, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Barney Mac Laughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Meenyollan, Co. Donegal
