School: Árd Raithín (roll number 6260)
- Location:
- Ardrahan, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Tomás S. Ó Meadhra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0036, Page 0218
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“One snowy day a man from Ballinduff, Ardrahan asked a leipreacháin what would he do on that day and he said to sow beans.”
One snowy day a man from Ballinduff, Ardrahan , asked a leipreacháin what would be do on that day and he said to sow beans . He sowed them and they grew up to be stalks of gold . One day a man was going to the mill and he went into the field to get one of the stalks to beat the ass. He found it to be a stalk of gold . The English Government came and bought them . The field is called Croc an Óir ever since.
- Collector
- Eileen Cunningham
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolfin, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Pat Niland
- Gender
- Male