School: Bullán (roll number 13432)
- Location:
- Bullaun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Muimhneacháin
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- Hidden TreasureThere is a gold cup hidden in Killescragh and the person that finds it will be the luckiest man in the world. While he has the cup it will be always full. According as he takes out a sovereign another one will come in it's place. A man named Joseph Connaire who lived in Tolooban about 80 years ago happened to find it. He had it only a few days when a beggar-man came along and asked for assistance. Joseph was so avaricious that he would not part with any of the gold so he told the beggar-man that he couldn't help him. Then the beggar-man turned away and said, "I know the cup is full Joseph but the person that will find it next will never turn away a beggar-man from his door". Then he walked away and when he was about 100 yards gone what do you think happened didn't the gold cup come up out of Joseph's pocket and away it floated after the beggar-man away goes Joseph after the cup but the beggar-man and the cup disappeared in a hole in Killescragh. So Joseph returned home and died of grief soon after.Got by: Mary Flannery, Ballykeerin, Bullaun, Loughrea.
From: My Uncle Pat age 64, same address.
- Collector
- Mary Flannery
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballykeeran, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Pat
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Ballykeeran, Co. Galway
