School: Drumgossatt (C.)
- Location:
- Drumgoosat, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Áine Nic Ghráinne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0930, Page 012
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- (continued from previous page)the corner. There he left him in the corner for a few days. One day the man was out working and his wife was very busy doing the household work. Once when she was coming in with a bucket of potatoes she slipped and fell on the doorstep. when the fairy saw this he began to laugh. The woman went up to him and said scornfully if you don't tell what you are laughing at I'll burn you into cinders "yes" said the fairy, I am laughing at you falling on a crock of gold. Immediately she went out and called her husband. When the man came home they lifted the stone and sure enough there they found a crock of gold.Once upon a time there was a small pond on the top of a hill in the parish of Donaghmoyne. At the same time the priest of the knew that a treasure lay hidden in the bottom of it. He decided that(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alice Crawley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisnaclea, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Thomas Crawley
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisnaclea, Co. Monaghan
