School: St Boden's, Culdaff

Location:
Culdaff, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 118

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    and the soldiers wiped the head off him. When night fell the neighbours gathered and burried the monk's body. The people put a large rock over his grave and every time "it rains" the holes in the rock seem to fill up with blood instead of water.
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  2. During the penal days one very dry summer all the wells were dry and there "wuz" no water for anything. A certain priest "wuz" saying Mass on a Mass rock in Larahirl called Kilmaroo. Before Mass some "wan toul" the priest there "wuz" no spring water for the consecration of the Mass, so the priest "druv" his heel down in the ground and "suddenly" water
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    Topics
    1. events
      1. events (by time of year) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    B. Philomena Deeny
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Denis Greene
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Laraghirril, Co. Donegal