School: Eanach Dubh (B.) (roll number 13656)
- Location:
- Annaduff, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Thomas Morahan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0214, Page 074
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- (continued from previous page)dance and an old man called Larry would play tunes on the fiddle for them.After that the scutched flax was hackled and then woven into linen.This tale was told to me by Peter Reynolds, Corduff, Dromod, Co. Leitrim
- The old Fenagh abbey.A party of monks if the Franciscan order resided there long ago. At first the monastery was only a little hut, and because of that the monks decided to build a new abbey.On the first night the building was two feet high. When the monks rose the following morning they found the building knocked.The masons rebuilt it but it was knocked again(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Peter Reynolds
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corduff, Co. Leitrim
