School: St Boden's, Culdaff
- Location:
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 207
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- (continued from previous page)he found the sheep. He said it was the fairies had the sheep and for fear their home would be blown away they sent back the sheep.
- One time in Claggon in this parish of Culdaff there stood a house of which the ruins are still to be seen where there lived a woman called "Matilda Lamb."Above the house where she lived grew a holly bush: and before she went out to steal milk from neigbours' cows she always went to this holly bush. It was believed that she had something to do at this bush before she could get any milk.
- Collector
- Daniel Noone
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Callion
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Claggan, Co. Donegal
