School: Drumloughan (Dromlachan) (roll number 15665)
- Location:
- Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0221, Page 127
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- (continued from previous page)in Mount Ida but there are some families of this name in Rossan (Aughavas) and in "the Glebe" Cloone.
- There are a good many Giant's Graves around these parts. There is one in Drumlaughin and anaother in Aughaniltubrid. The tradition about them is that the Formorians were buried there. They say they passed this way when flying from the Battle of Mag Tiúra, and that according as they died they were buried under these big rough stones.
- A lazy woman went one time to wash clothes and she began to wash in a spring well.
When she was washing the last towel a calf jumped out of the well and began to follow her. The water rushed out after the calf and the woman ran her best and at last she was overtaken by the(continues on next page) - Collector
- P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John M. Kiernan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim
