School: Maigh Ard
- Location:
- Moyard, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Dubhshlain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0006, Page 107
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- There are two little black thorn bushes growing in my field about a half a mile from my house. Once there lived an old man in Rockfield called John Coyne.
He told my father if he went back at twelve a clock at night and dig up one of the bushes he would find a pot of gold.
But before coming home he must bury the bush up-side-down within a quarter of an hour and if he had not it buried before the time was up the fairies would come and bring him away.
- Collector
- Francis King
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crocknaraw, Co. Galway
