School: Baile an Daingin (C.) (roll number 4828)
- Location:
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire de Staic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0096, Page 453
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- (continued from previous page)to argue with him.
The dane and the man began to argue, and the man killed the dane with his spade. When he returned home he found the poor man in the house and he said "I am sent by God with this food." "He knew how you were treated by the dane and that is why I was sent here."
- In the land of Oranmore under a little hill a pot of gold is hidden. A huge iron door is leading to it It is said Lord Oranmore's Grandfather put it there. It is minded by a black cat.
- Collector
- N. Waldron
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- James Waldron
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 61
- Address
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
- There is suposed to be a pot of gold hidden in a village called Poll luinge near Crossboyne. A man who attempted to interfere with it was killed by a black cat.
- Collector
- Kathleen Navin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Martin Costello
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Farmhill, Co. Mayo
