School: Fothar (roll number 16903)
- Location:
- Faugher, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Bláthnaid Ní Fhannghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1076, Page 390
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- (continued from previous page)a path through the hill from Faugher to Knocknafaugher.
- Before the Breaghy Road was made the people would go a near way to Dunfanaghy and to the shops. There is a cross roads at Drimnaraw. About forty years ago the people used to cross the Marblehill strand and they would have to watch for the tide.
- Collector
- John Sweeney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cnoc an Mharmair, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- Dan Sweeney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Cnoc an Mharmair, Co. Dhún na nGall
- There is a Mass rock in Jim Algeo's field Faugher. There is a Mass rock in the field of James Friel, Sandhill, a townland convenient to Dunfanaghy.
- One time during the Penal Laws a priest was being hunted in Ballymore. A Protestant man named Wilkinson took him in and hid him in a meal barrel. During the night English soldiers came to search for him. They asked(continues on next page)
