School: St Boden's, Culdaff
- Location:
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 134
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- Once upon a time there was a scaffold at Culdaff for hanging people where a cobblers shop now stands. There was a man named Butler who lived in Grousehall, he was a very bad man and he got a lot of people hung and a lot of men tried to shoot him but he wore a coat of steel and no one could shoot him.One night a man named McGuinness got a ladder and he had a gun and when Butler was getting into bed he shot him. After that he went away and did not come back for years. When he came back no one knew him but the man of the house he stopped in, informed on him. In a few weeks the yeomen(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eugene E. Deeny
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Hugh Harvey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Gleneely, Co. Donegal
