School: Shrule (roll number 7795/7796)
- Location:
- Shrule, Co. Galway
- Teacher: (name not given)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0038C, Page 10_028
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Shrule
- XML Page 10_028
- XML “Folklore”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- There was a school in Dalgan long ago and Protestants used to teach Protestant children in it. There is no track of it to be found now. There was a man digging these one day and he dug up the foundation. There are trees in its place now. It was not always a Protestant school because when the Protestants were dead and gone the Catholics took it and made a Catholic school out of it. One day the children were running about and a little boy fell and broke his leg and that minute a spring of water came through the ground. The boy went to hospital but his leg would not be fixed and he died. The water which came from the ground became a well and it is there yet. It changes every Summer.
- Collector
- Michael Mitchell
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John O' Dea
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dalgan Demesne, Co. Mayo
