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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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.

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Collector
Edward Kirby
Gender
male
Address
Stonehall, Co. Mayo
Informant
Patrick Walshe
Gender
male
Age
75
Occupation
farmer
Address
Gorteen, Co. Mayo
Language
English