School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 254
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“Once upon a time there was a man digging in a field and it was for a farmer he was working.”
(continued from previous page)minutes he went to see it again a couple of times and the farmer noticing him going to the ditch called him in to do something around the house which he need not have done at all. When the poor man went in the farmer went to the hole in the ditch and finding the crock of gold took it away and kept it. When the poor man went in to get his gold he could not get it. He went away home and he never ceased crying all night. The farmer kept it and the poor man got out of his mind afterwards.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peg Barry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derry, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- John Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Derry, Co. Kerry