School: Riverstown 2
- Location:
- Riverstown, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Áine Ní Pheadair
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- About one mile and a half from Riverstown in Co sligo there is a large building called Cooperhill House. When Cromwell was dividing land into lots he gave one of the lots to a man named Cooper. When this man was building a house it took a tub of gold to build the foundation.
When he was at the fifth storey he had no money to, finish it, so he built the fifth storey half-way to show that he had no money to complete the building.
On the entrance to the house there is a bridge, the foundation of which was built of wool because the foundation otherwise was not found firm enough.
One day there was a man working at a stone that he was building with. He saw a man going from Cooperhill house with a basket of apples. He then asked the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Christie Middleton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrownspurraun, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr T. Middleton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrownspurraun, Co. Sligo
