School: Tillystown, Bray (roll number 9845)
- Location:
- Shanganagh, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Heoghanáin
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- (continued from previous page)People dreamed of gold been on the side of the hill.
- For years a couple of inches of stone could be seen over the clay in our field, and every time a plough was passing, it struck the stone. Every year the clay kept sinking around the stone, and the stone began to get higher above the ground. Corn was sown in the field and potatoes were sown in the field. Every crop that was sown in the field was hard to manage where the stone was [?] particularly potatoes. When a plough struck the(continues on next page)
- Informant
- James Butler
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Quarry Road, Co. Dublin
