School: Gleann Tochair (roll number 16611)
- Location:
- Glentogher, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: An tSr. Sorcha A. Ní Dhómhnaill
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- (continued from previous page)hay is cut, it destroys it.
About twenty years ago a man that carted lime was coming from Derry with a horse and cart. There was a very heavy flood in the Glentogher river and as he was coming across MacMonigles bridge the flood was so heavy that it tore away the bridge, and took the man, horse and cart with it.
The next day after the flood had subsided the man's dead body was found washed up into the meadow a little piece from the school. The cart had been broken up in pieces but the horse escaped because it could swim. Since then that flood was called "The Lime Man's Flood".
Most of the bridge stuck at a place directly oppsoite the school so it was decided to build another bridge there and there has been one in this place ever since.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Susie Mac Cole
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Glentogher, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Denis Toland
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Ellen Toland
- Gender
- Female
