School: Árd-achadh (roll number 17098)
- Location:
- Ardagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Liam Ó Coinne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0148, Page 170
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- (continued from previous page)black cat or perhaps a black hen. Then you have to throw the black cat at the serpent and then you can get the gold. Nobody ever made at [sic] attempt to get it. The buried treasure consists of gold. I do not know of any gold being discovered. This was a tree that was knocked above in Newtown, at Mrs O’Hora’s the gatehouse. When her son knocked the tree he found a pen-knife covered with blood. He brought it into the house and cleaned it. After he took it he could hear a cry in it. He got afraid but kept the knife. Agnes Conway
Raphael, Knockanillaun, Ballina, Co. Mayo, Ireland.I got ask this information from my father, John Conway (50) the same address as myself.
- Collector
- Agnes Conway
- Other names
- Agnes Conway
- Úna Ní Chonnacháin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rappacastle, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Conway
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Rappacastle, Co. Mayo
