School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Lic Snámha (roll number 11849)
- Location:
- Lixnaw, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An tSr. Gabriel
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0410, Page 234
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- (continued from previous page)years for its hidden treasures and even in the district where I live a crock of gold is supposed to be hidden. The lands in which it was found is owned by a man named Tracey.
Long ago there was a fort in his land. One night when his grand-father was coming home from a wake, when he was crossing the fort he saw a number of fairies dancing around a bright fire. He got afraid and ran home and told what he had seen. When he died his son cut down all the trees and planted crops there, but a crop never grew.
Mr. Tracey had a servant boy named Jack Donoghue, and he ordered him to sink a well in the same ground as there were a number of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Betty Heavey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aghabeg Middle, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Miss Bessie Quilter
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Lixnaw, Co. Kerry
