School: Bullán (roll number 13432)
- Location:
- Bullaun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0059, Page 0138
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- A StoryOnce upon a time there lived a man alone in a house.One night when he was in bed a peacock came to the window and he heard a voice saying. If you dig beside the apple tree in the garden you will find a pot of gold.Next morning the man got up early and took a spade with him into the garden. He started to dig one side of the tree after awhile he got a lid "now I have the gold he said". But when he lifted up the lid there was no pot of gold under it. He kept on digging and got nothing but the lid. He went back to his house again and brought the lid with him. He left if beside the fire. Next a strange man came to his house he sat by the fire and after a while he asked the man where did he get that lid. He told him how he got it beside the tree in the garden. "Get me the spade", said for there is a pot of gold at the other side of the tree. There is not said the other man because I dug each side of the tree. But(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Fahy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bellayarha South, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Pat Fahy
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Bellayarha South, Co. Galway
