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School: Empor (roll number 941)

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Emper, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
P. Gallagher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, Page 063

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    There is a crock of gold hidden in a garden near the inny river.
    People say there is a black cat minding it under a big rock.
    There was a woman long ago and she dreamed three nights in succession that there was a box of gold guineas hidden in her garden under a potatoe ridge.
    She went out the third morning and started to dig the ridge.
    At first she dug out three white mice, and then one of the guineas.
    She lifted
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peter Nugent
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Peter Mc Cormack
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Emper, Co. Westmeath