School: Sraithín (roll number 12808)
- Location:
- Sraheen, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Croidhean
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0150, Page 155
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“There was once a woman living in a house who was kind of sick.”
(continued from previous page)days and disappeared again so the poor man was worse than ever again.
A Story
“There was once a lazy man in a field and a few other men with him so they told him that if he would dig under this bótholán he would get a pot of gold.”
There was once a lazy man in a field and a few other men with him so they told him that if he would dig under this bótholán he would get a pot of gold. Well I have no spade to dig the bóthólán now. If I go home for the shade I wont know the bótholán to dig. So he tied a red tape on the bóthólán the way he would know it when he would come back. When he came back they were all tied with red tapes and he did not know what one to start at, so he started at the first and he kept digging until he was black in the face. When he came to this bótholán there came from under the bótholán a little red man and said to him, if you would dig that good for yourself there would be gold on the spade for you.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Edward Kirby
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Stonehall, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick Walshe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Gorteen, Co. Mayo