School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0949, Page 094
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- XML “The Priest and the Milk”
- XML “The Calliagh Slaughter House”
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- (continued from previous page)raising gravel on Logwood Hill he found a grave with a lot of wee bones in it. There was a small wall round the grave. When he saw this he closed the grave.
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- Collector
- Paddy Ellis
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 16
- Address
- Drumhillagh, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mrs Ellis
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Drumhillagh, Co. Monaghan
- Once upon a time there lived in Calliagh people called McGuinness and they had a slaughter house. Every night they would go out to the fields and byres and steal the people's cattle. They done this for two months. At the end of that time every night a wet sack came down the chimney and they had to leave the house.
