School: St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh
- Location:
- Béal Átha Seanaidh, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: An Br. S. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1027, Page 044
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“There are many fields around Bundoran with stray sods in them. (A stray sod is supposed to be a patch of ground on which a coffin containing a dead body was placed, while those who were carrying it rested.)...”
(continued from previous page)years ago I was coming home from the town about midnight. I happened to stand on a stray sod. When I found I had lost myself I didn’t get excited. Instead I turned my coat inside out for this is an old cure. I wandered on through the worst ground imaginable. I found myself at the Mearon which was quite out of my ordinary route. Then I stumbled and fell into a quarry. I then turned my waistcoat inside out praying all the time for deliverance. About a quarter of an hour later I came upon the right road. I had been wandering for about three and three quarter hours.
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“There is a field in the Ross near Bundoran names Pairc Liam (William's field) which is supposed to contain a crock of gold...”
There is a field in the Ross near Bundoran names Pairc Liam (William's field) which is supposed to contain a crock of gold. A man named Daly who owned the field went one(continues on next page) - Collector
- Tom Leonard
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Machaire Cairthe, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- Peter Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ross, Co. Dhún na nGall