School: Naomh Pádraig, Carrowmena (roll number 16787)
- Location:
- Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig S. Ó Cathain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 342
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- One Sunday morning 78 years ago Pat Mac Colgan of Ballymagaraghy was just six years old at that time. He was herding his father's cows in the townland of Carrowbeg. Close by there was an old ruin covered over with ivy. Suddenly he heard a noise as of someone rattling iron. The cows ran home and he ran home also. At night the best cow was suddenly swollen and moaning. His father told him that she was shot by the fairies. His father gave her gunpowder with an egg mixed through it and she was well in a few days.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Lafferty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymagaraghy, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Patrick Mac Colgan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Ballymagaraghy, Co. Donegal
