School: St Boden's, Culdaff
- Location:
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Doiminic Ó Duibhne
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 226
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- Once upon a time there lived a man who had plenty of money. There was a thief about the place and the thief bet him a hundred pounds sterling that he would take the sheet from under him that night.
The thief went away then and in the middle of the the night he got a deadman and put him down the chimney on a rope and the man of the house was standing at the room door with a gun in his hand.
He shot the dead nam and got a spade and burried him. But during the time he was burying the man the thief went and took the sheet off the bed(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Shiels
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Tomas Shiels
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Muff, Co. Donegal
