School: Aughnamullen (roll number 6284)
- Location:
- Aghnamullen, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chonghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0941, Page 036
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- No(t) person should cut a lone Bush; because it belongs to the Fairies. People round this district have been known to cut them and met with misfortune. One man nearly lost his eye. Others broke limbs.A Crock of gold was supposed to be hidden on a man's farm 1/4 mile from here. Mr Bob Hagan. It was hidden under a lone bush. A woman tried to get it and she lost some fingers in doing so. Her little boy was with her and he fell in a track and broke his two legs.When a cow calved my father told me, he used to be sent, when a child, with some of the Beaslings on first milk, to pour it round the roots of the Lone Bush(continues on next page)
