School: St Oran's, Buncrana
- Location:
- Bun Cranncha, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Seán Mac Éibhir
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- (continued from previous page)There was a man in Sledrin and he had straw crosses for twenty years and he would give nobody one but a priest and one day a priest came and asked him for one and the man gave him one. The man went a week after for the cross but the priest had given it to another man before the he came and when the priest went back with the cross the man was sick and he told the priest to keep it. The man died three days after that.
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- Con Doherty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Gort Uí Argáin, Co. Dhún na nGall
- There is a man in Sleastin he can makes crosses and when the harvest comes the people go to him to make crosses for their houses this man is called Barney Dorthey.(continues on next page)
