School: St Mary's, Buncrana
- Location:
- Bun Cranncha, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Bhraonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 470
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“She often heard strangers coming to this place talk about the bushes that are growing here and there through the fields.”
She often heard strangers coming to this place talk about the bushes that are growing here and there through the fields.
Men plough round them and do not disturb them. There are men ploughing and working round these bushes because their grandfather's did the same.
There is a belief that these are gentle bushes, and are(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Mary Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bun Cranncha, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- Mrs Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Slavary, Co. Dhún na nGall