School: Montpelier, O'Brien's Bridge (roll number 14875)
- Location:
- Montpelier, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Liam Ó Tuama
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- (continued from previous page)there was a big cut of bread left behind him on the furrow. Then they turned back all the field and it was never ploughed since.
IV. There is a big stone in Burkes field. They say that there is gold hidden under it. When people went to look for it they saw the Divils horns under the stone. The people ran away frightened and when they returned the stone was back in its place again.
- V. There was once a girl who had a gold leg. When she died her husband took the gold leg off her. The night of her wake she awake. She was seen standing in the Hall and to everyone who passed in she used to say who has my gold leg. The answer they used to give was I don't know. About one a clock in the night her husband was passing in and she said to him where is my gold leg and he said I don't know and she said you have it. She took off one of his legs and turned it into a gold leg for herself.
- VI. An old man and woman lived in a wood and they had a son and his name was Jack. This day Jack went out in the wood picking sticks and he saw a hare eating clover and he said to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Moloney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fairyhall, Co. Limerick
