School: Druim Míleadh (roll number 14898)
- Location:
- Drumeela, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Ailbeard Mac an Ríogh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0229, Page 078
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- (continued from previous page)so they gathered them up and decided to throw them into Errew Lough which ajoins the graveyard. Next morning they went to the grave again.
On top of the grave lay the weights she had used in her shop. They took them up and for the second time threw them into the Lough. Every morning the same strange thing happened until they found it useless removing them.
They remained there until the grass grew over them and covered them until they were forgotten by everybody.
- Collector
- Mary Mc Keever
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Micheal Mc Keever
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
