School: N. Colmcille, Buncrana (roll number 16752)
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pilib Mac Riada
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- (continued from previous page)out of the rock. So he started to fill his pockets. When he had his pockets filled there was more coming out of the rock and he then tied the bottom of his trousers and filled them up too. When he had his trousers filled he could not walk and so he thought he would sit down. When he was sitting for a while he could not get up, so he loosened the bottom of his trousers. When the gold was all out of his trousers he could get up still and he could not get up till he left the last coin on the ground and when he left down the last coin they vanished, and he heard the fairies laughing at him, and he had to go home without any gold at all.
- Collector
- Archie Rodden
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Rodden
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
