School: Gleann Fhaoilidh (Gleneely)

Location:
Gleneely, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Pádraig Mac Fhinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1099, Page 189

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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
    2. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    J. Reid Prine
    Gender
    Unknown
    Informant
    Mr. James Mc Laughlin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cornabrogue, Co. Donegal
  2. A story is told by John Connaghan Drumcannon, about two women who formerly lived in the district. One of them named Mc Kirklett lived in the house now occupied by Mr. Samuel Rule. Gleneely, and the other in the house in which Mr. George Logue of the same district now resides.
    The two women were bitter enemies and spent most of their time fighting with each other. Then Kirklett took ill and died. Mc Cathal's husband went to the wake but she herself remained at home working at her spinning wheel. She sensed that someone else was in the room with and looking up she saw her old enemy standing inside the door dressed in her funeral robes and with a bonnet on her head. In no way daunted or dismayed she
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