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St Barron was the first Saint to live in the district. He had no place to build a church and he went to the king and asked him for some land on which to build a church...

Story collected by Thomas Cleary, a student at St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh school (Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal) from informant Mrs Cleary.

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Bones Discovered

Story collected by Paul Dolan, a student at St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh school (Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal) from informant Mr J. J. Woods.

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About half a mile from Ballyshannon stand the ruins of the old monastery (Abbey Assaroe). It was wrecked in Cromwell's Time and the bells of the monastery were thrown into the river nearby...

Story collected by Thomas Cleary, a student at St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh school (Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal) from informant Mary Kane.

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About two miles from Bundoran there is a well in a place called Ashbrook. Long ago there was a monastery beside it...

Story collected by Patrick Mc Aleer, a student at St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh school (Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal) from informant Jimmy Daly.

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There is an old school about a mile to the south of Ballyshannon on the land of Mr P. Laughlin (Dunmuckrim)...

Story collected by Danny Breslin, a student at St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh school (Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal) from informant Mr P. Laughlin.

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There is a big field in Dunmuckrim called the Rampark about a mile to the south of Ballyshannon...

Story collected by Danny Breslin, a student at St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh school (Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal) from informant Mr P Loughlin.

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Once there were visitors at the cave in Catsby. They had a little dog with them. It ran up the cave, and returned with a bundle in its mouth...

Story collected by Thomas Cleary, a student at St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh school (Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal) from informant Mary Kane.

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Gatsby Cave

Story collected by a student at St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh school (Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal) (no informant identified).

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In Camlin there is a large stone the shape of a tomb-stone. It is said that a giant was buried there...

Story collected by Brendan Rocks, a student at St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh school (Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal) from informant Mr Fannon.

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About two miles from Ballyshannon there is a big stone called "the two mile stone". It is said that Finn Mc Cumhall threw it from a mountain seven miles away...

Story collected by Thomas Cleary, a student at St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh school (Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal) from informant Mrs Cleary.

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In the townland of Dunmuckrim there is an old limestoen quarry. It is very rugged and there are great big holes in the rock...

Story collected by Danny Breslin, a student at St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh school (Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal) from informant Mr P. Loughlin.

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After the demolition of the Abbey Monastery the people of Kilbarron parish had no church to go to. After a number of years a church to meet the needs of the parish was built in the townland of Coolcolly...

Story collected by Dom Gillespie, a student at St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh school (Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal) from informant Mr John Gillespie.

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The building known as the Barracks is situated in the Main Street beside the bridge...

Story collected by Dom. Gillespie, a student at St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh school (Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal) from informant Mr John Gillespie.

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Long ago a man was living in Ballyshannon district. His name was "Méar Fhada". He was called this because he had a long finger. He was always complaining about people call him names...

Story collected by Brendan Rocks, a student at St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh school (Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal) from informant Mr J. Mc Grath.

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In the Ross, Bundoran there was a man named Patrick Daly. One day he disappeared and the people said he was taken away by the fairies...

Story collected by Patrick Mc Aleer, a student at St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh school (Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal) from informant Dan Gilbride.

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Wardtown Castle

Story collected by Paul Dolan, a student at St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh school (Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal) from informant Mrs K. Dolan.

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The Distillery

Story collected by a student at St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh school (Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal) (no informant identified).

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Out past Camlin Castle there is an old barn. It is called by some "An t-Aiffrean". It is so called because an old priest once said Mass there during the Penal days in Ireland...

Story collected by Brendan Rocks, a student at St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh school (Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal) from informant Mrs Nora Coyle.

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About a mile outside Ballyshannon there are the ruins of an old church. It was built about three hundred years ago. It was called Domhnach Mór which means the big Sunday.

Story collected by Danny Breslin, a student at St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh school (Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal) from informant Mr P. Laughlin.

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It is said that long ago the monks buried the bell of the monastery in the little stream that runs by the graveyard. When the sun shines it casts the shadow of the monastery (at twelve o'clock) where the bell is supposed to be hidden...

Story collected by Thomas Cleary, a student at St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh school (Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal) from informant Mrs J. Cleary.

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If any person wants to get rid of a birth mark let him or her touch a dead person's body...

Story collected by Brendan Rocks, a student at St Joseph's, Béal Átha Seanaigh school (Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal) from informant Mrs Gallagher.

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