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“About twelve years ago a man named Patrick Mc Gonagle now residing at the Millbrae cottage Carndonagh.”
CBÉS 1115
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The Schools’ Collection
This is a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s. More information
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“About fifty years ago woman lived in Carndonagh and her name was Sally Ailo.”
CBÉS 1115
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“About twelve years a man called Patrick Mc Gonagle of Carndonagh, now living at Milbrae, beside the convent school, joined the Free State Army and was stationed in the Curragh of Kildare.”
CBÉS 1115
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“It was customary with the old people to get up very early on the first morning of May in order to see the first morning smoke in the chimneys about fifty years ago there lived an old woman in Strass, two miles outside Carndonagh, Co Donegal.”
CBÉS 1115
Eddie Doherty, Mary Josephine Doherty
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“About fifty years ago there was a house in the parish of Carndonagh and it was supposed to be haunted.”
CBÉS 1115
Eddie Doherty, Mary Josephine Doherty
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“Once upon a time - perhaps sixty years ago - there was a branch bank in one of the townlands near Carndonagh, and the bank managers went on his trap once a week to this branch bank.”
CBÉS 1115
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“There was a house in Collin, near Carndonagh called the "Step In".”
CBÉS 1115
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“About seventy years ago a man named Mac Devitt lived Tiernaleague, Carndonagh.”
CBÉS 1115
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“About fifty years ago there was a vacant house in this district near Collin, Carndonagh, which was for sale.”
CBÉS 1115
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“Long ago there was a man living in Glentogher, Carndonagh and his name was Morrison.”
CBÉS 1115
Eileen Mc Guinness, Mrs Mc Guinness
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“About fifty years ago a young man lived with his father, mother, and brother in Cashelcraw, Carndonagh.”
CBÉS 1115
Greta Dever, Mrs J. Dever
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“One time there was a large house, situated in Glenmakee, in the parish of Carndonagh, and it was supposed to be haunted by a protestant minister whose name I am unable to find.”
CBÉS 1115
Ellen Doherty, Maeve Doogan
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“One time there was a man and he lived in Trenbane near Carndonagh. He went away to America and some years after he came home and he was very rich.”
CBÉS 1116
Bernard Doherty, Maggie Doherty
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Irish Words in English in Carndonagh District
CBÉS 1116
Cornelius Doherty, Mrs Mc Gonagle
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A Story
“In one of St Columbkille's prophecies he foretold that the first man to climb the hill outside Carndonagh would be riding on a white horse.”
CBÉS 1117
Arthur Peoples
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“My father, William Doherty, Pound St, Carndonagh still alive aged 73, born 1865 often told us when children that his forefathers came from Bun na Coilleadh, Urris Clonmany.”
CBÉS 1119
William Doherty
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Old Irish Tale
“Once upon a time there were two men which lived in the north of Donegal and one day they went to Carndonagh together for a walk.”
CBÉS 1120
Jim Smith
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