School: Coracrin
- Location:
- Corracrin, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Ní Dhuibhghlinn
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“In olden times the Leslie family went to drain tully lake and leslie went and got boons of men to drain the lake.”
In olden times the Leslie family went to drain tully lake and leslie went and got boons of men to drain the lake The started to sink a drain from the lake to get the water out of it There were boons of men working for months and months when the were some time at it they got it sunk when ever they got it finish they were just about to take the water, out of it when they heard a whistle blow on Tully forth and then a nother whistle blew on carrigans forth A stone came down out of the air and hit in the middle of the drain just at the mouth of the drain and sopt the water from flowing out and the stone was so big that it could not be moved from that day to this and men that were fishing in Tully lake told it that they saw the stone in it
Francis Connolly Cornacrieve
- Collector
- Francis Connolly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cornacreeve, Co. Monaghan