School: Gaduidhe Dubh (C.)
- Location:
- Gaddyduff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cáitlín Ní Mhiothagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1120, Page 429
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“There were two men going on a journey one night and they heard some one crying.”
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There were two men going on a journey one night and they heard some one crying They ran home as quickly as they could. Some time after one of them went to Scotland and took a fever and was lying in a barn and no one near him. A woman came in and asked him "how he was" he said he was better than the day before. The woman asked him did he know who was crying that night he said "no." The woman said it was she and she saved his life and got the flesh torn of herself
- Collector
- Mary Devlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonmany, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- James Bradly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clehagh, Co. Donegal