School: Cloughjordan (No. 1) (roll number 3348)
- Location:
- Cloch Shiurdáin, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Miss F.H. Thomson
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- One day a simple man got a sixpenny piece from a priest. He hid it a hole in a wall near the priest's house and went away. The priest who was looking at him through the window came out and exchanged the sixpence for a shilling. When the man came back again, and he found the shilling He said, "I'll leave it here the money is growing bigger and he went away. The priest came out again and he exchanged the shilling for a two shilling piece. When the man came back he was very pleased and left his money there. The priest then took the two shillings out and in a half-sovereign in its place. When the man came again and saw the yellow colour on the sovereign he said, "I'll take it out now because its getting the yellow jaundice." and he took it away.
- Collector
- Edwina Williams
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloch Shiurdáin, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- Mr R.A. Williams
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 59
- Address
- Cloch Shiurdáin, Co. Thiobraid Árann
