School: Áth na bhFearchan (roll number 5500)
- Location:
- Aghnafarcan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Mac Closcaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0931, Page 222
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- (continued from previous page)Oisin would not give him the calf so the two of them pulled the calf till they split him in the middle When Manover went back to the house to Fionn's wife she had an oaten cake made for him with horse nails in it. He told her to fry the half a calf for him. When the half a calf was fried he eat it and the oaten cake, and while he was eating Fionn's wife went down to the river and put poison in the water. When Manover was finished eating he went down to the river for a drink, and he drank his fill and when he was finished drinking he fell on the brow of the river and died. He is buired in Finnegan's field an there is a large stone over his grave.
- One time there was a young man home on his holidays from Scotland, and one Sunday after he came from mass, he took a boat and went across Lough Egish to see Chapel Mile. When he looked around it he got into the boat to go home, and when he was half way home on the Lough the boat turned and it sank. The man was not missed for three days. The Lough is about two English miles long. No one saw the boat turn, or they did not know here the boat went down. In nine days the body came to the top of the water but the boat was never found. This happened in the year 1870.
- Collector
- Patrick Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumavaddy, Co. Monaghan
