School: Craobhach (roll number 14671)
- Location:
- Creevagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac an Mhíleadha
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“There was a woman in Rathlacken named Biddy Sheáin.”
There was a woman in Rathlacken named Biddy Sheáin. She dreamt of gold three nights. The gold was supposed to be in Pat Golden's land ? Beltra. In the morning after the third dream she went to this particular spot and lifted the gold ? and she saw the congregation coming home from Mass. She put the pot of gold down and when all the people were gone home, she lifted [it] but it was a pot full of shells. People say "If she threw three spits on it it would not turn to shells. That explains why people spit on money when they get it.
- Collector
- Kathleen Mahedy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockboha, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Holmes
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 20
- Address
- Conaghra, Co. Mayo