Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)

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1. Crock of Gold Found

   

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   "When I was young a farmer named Lyons from Cnoc a Tobraide dreamt three nights running that there was a crock of gold hidden under a sgeach back beside the fort Ráth Chaorach ("Ráheeroch"). He and his two nephews decided to have a try this night. They were not long digging until they met the flag. They lifted the flag and right enough there was the gold. With a great struggle they got it as far as the house. They decided to bury the treasure under the hearth-stone in the parlour. They went in quietly and worked away without making any noise lest they might waken the servant boy who was sleeping in the parlour. The man of the house brought the candle over and held it to the boy's face "Are you asleep, you little rogue, you, are you asleep?" The more he questioned him the more the boy snored. But 'the little rogue' wasn't asleep and he had to get his store of the gold.

   [The point that always struck me every time I heard this story told, was that the servant boy had a bed in the parlour. Where are they put to sleep nowadays?]

   

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   Date

   11 August 1908

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Pádruig Mac Domhnaill

2. My Grandfather and the Fairyman

   

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   m'athair "In my father's time there was a fairyman in Bunclody , in whom the people had great belief. My father had a valuable sow ailing and nothing

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