School: Glassalts (roll number 1239)
- Location:
- Glasalt or Treanfasy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. P. Ó Dochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 170
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- (continued from previous page)servant with him who used to frighten the neighbourhood children when he rolled his big white eyeballs. A beautiful woman was supposed to have borne him child (and) there and ugly rumours were afloat when he was seen on one night with a lantern digging a pit.
After his death the trustees of his estate rented the mansion furnished to a minister who had newly got an appointment to a church in the district, and a van delivered the family baggage one Friday morning and the Rev. _ moved in, (his family who were vacationing on the Isle of Man would follow him in a few days).
He spent all Friday afternoon and night in a room on the first floor which he designated as his study, and in the quietness was able to prepare a most appropriate sermon for his premiere.
On the stroke of midnight the mansion lit up and carriages began arriving with beautiful women in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- David A. Campbell
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Robert Campbell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Collin, Co. Donegal
