School: Tóin an tSeanbhaile
- Location:
- Tóin an tSeanbhaile, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mac Pháidín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0086, Page 242
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- (continued from previous page)used spend a few months there. One evening as the men were out fishing an old woman was getting ready the supper, they used have porridge for supper.
The woman was making the porridge and a man came in and started mocking her, she began to cry that her husband and her brother were drowned. She began praying to God to save her husband and brother, she sat down by the fire-side and was crying all the night that her men were drowned, but the man was making fun of her, she caught a sauce-pan and filled it with porridge and flung it between his two eyes. He went out the door in a flame of fire.
The flame of fire went over the hills and lied in a hollow called "Poll a púcha" at Cashel, the next morning the people of Cashel looked in the hollow where the fire lay and they began to dig to see if they could get any thing and they got a pot of gold. The man and the boy were drowned that night, and it is said that the man that came to the woman was the "devil".(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mr Peter Grealis
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Michael Gallagher
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Tóin an tSeanbhaile, Co. Mayo
