School: St Boden's, Culdaff
- Location:
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 257
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- (continued from previous page)he saw. It was supposed he read bad books and he had power to blink anybodies articles better than his own.More than he Expected.
- Once upon a time in this Parish of Culdaff a man named Neil Farren. On a Monday morning forty years ago he was going to Carn with a cow. It was a holiday and the priest had no clerk and Neil Farren was the nearest boy in the Parish who could serve Mass.But this day he could not go. The Priest sent a messenger but he told the messenger he could not go(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Daniel Noone
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Neil Farren
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
