School: Aughagrania (roll number 14670)
- Location:
- Aghagrania, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Miss Róisín Mulvey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0208, Page 016
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- (continued from previous page)he asked him did he do any work that would harm his eye. The man said he cut a bush in the forth and put it in a gap. The priest told him to go at once to the forth and put the bush where he got it. The man did so and on his way home he took the patch off his eye and it was as good as it had ever beed before. Another story is told about this forth.
Once a man was taking a bag of turf from beside the forth. When he was ready to go home with the turf a voice cried out to him "Leave down them turf. The man looked a round him but he could not see anyone. Then he proceeded on his way, but to his surprise the bag of turf was taken off his back. He told the story when he went home. Next morning his brother went to the forth for the turf but to his surprise he found the bag emptied on the top of a ditch.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Anne Pagnum
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corloughlin, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mr Ben Pagnum
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
