School: St Boden's, Culdaff
- Location:
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 201
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- (continued from previous page)and you will get a thorn in under her tongue" and she was able to talk." So it was the fairies had put the thorn in under her tongue.
- Once upon a time there lived an old man who had an old sow "who" had young pigs. The old man went up to the hill and there came a wee old woman out from a rock.
She said if he would not give away a wee pig every day he would die. So every night when he would go out to feed the pigs a wee woman came and took away a wee pig. Every night there came people in from the town and they had to pass the rock and they heard wee pigs squealing(continues on next page) - Collector
- Hugh Mc Colgan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Dan Noone
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
