School: Ráth Sheiscinn (roll number 13866)
- Location:
- Ratheskin, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Anna Ní Chléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0142, Page 166
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- There is a hillock in the Glen
It is covered with wild hyacinths or blue bells during Spring and Summer. A man dreamt three times of a crock of gold which was hidden under it. He dug and he found the pot but when he opened it, it was full of frogs.
In Toin - na- h-abhann in Robert McElroy's land there was another crock of gold. A man dreamt of it and he was told to spit on it when he got it. He searched for it but he was disappointed.
There is a house in Creeves and some man dreamt three times that there was a crock of gold under the gable and that if he knocked it down he would get the pot of gold but he would not be allowed to throw it down.
Once upon a time there was a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Walshe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glenedagh Oughter, Co. Mayo
