School: Gort na Mara (Seafield) (roll number 11565)
- Location:
- Donaghintraine, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Ghathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0168, Page 161
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- (continued from previous page)pockets empty they will be filled again with gold". So however the fellow agreed and the man told him not to shave or cut his nails or go inside the walls of a dwelling house before seven years. He told him when he would be that way for five years no matter how quick he emptied his pockets they would be filled again. He went to a wood and stayed there, so however a little boy knew him and went as far as him. The fellow gave him a few pounds so every evening the little lad brought him food which kept him living. When he was five years there the gold came to him as it was foretold. Then one bad night came and it was snowing very heavily, the lad went into some farmers barn of straw and slept there. In the morning the farmer lifted him up(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Tiernan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Charles Mac Donald
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathgoonaun, Co. Sligo
