School: Sonna (roll number 1422)
- Location:
- Kildallan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs O' Connell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, Page 126
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- In the county Westmeath, in a place called Moyvore, there lived a farmer named Mulvany 100 years ago, and he found a pot of gold. This is how he found it. He was driving out cow out of a tillage field, and he stooped down at the hedge to pull a branch by the roots to drive the cow.
As he pulled up the branch he saw a pot with gold in it. The present owner of the pot, Michael Mulvanly, is a grandson of of the man who found it. He still has the pot - it is made of bronze, and he values it very highly. It is on the mantlepiece in a room, but he would not(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Crinnegan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Occupation
- Pupil
- Address
- Sonna Demesne, Co. Westmeath
