School: Oylegate (roll number 5918)
- Location:
- Oilgate, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Braoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0886, Page 182
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- (continued from previous page)he saw the mark where the pot of gold had been taken out.
One time there was a man and he was wanting money. He went to a little fairy man and the little man brought him out in a field near a quarry and he showed him a dockleaf and he said to the man "Do you see that dockleaf" and the man said "Yes". He told the man to come that night and he would get the money. When the man came the field was covered with dockleaves, so he did not know which one the little man showed him and that was the way the little man did him and he never got the money.
- I heard an old story about gold. It is said that it was down at the Slane[y?] under a holly tree. A man went to dig for it and when he went to the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sadie Harpur
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Harpur
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynaslaney, Co. Wexford
