School: Dristeran (roll number 2131)
- Location:
- Dristernan, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Cnaimhsighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1122, Page 268
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“About 56 years ago Neil Mc Colgan's father (Neil lives here) was building a house.”
About 56 years ago Neil McColgan's father (Neil lives here) was building a house. He had no stones. He looked every place but he could get none. The next day he went down to the garden and started to quarry a rock there. That night no person in the house could sleep for the fairies started knapping the stones until Neil and his father had to put all the stones back again into the quarry.
This story is told by Neil who still lives. His place the Rock and he is known as "Neil at the Rock".
- Collector
- Mary Cummings
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Neil Mc Colgan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Gleneely, Co. Donegal
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“About the first quarter of the nineteenth century there was a hedge school in this district.”
About the first quarter of the nineteenth century there was a hedge school in this district. The master was a man named Coyle. He was a very proud and pompous(continues on next page)