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School: Grange (roll number 3759)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0155, Page 143

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    of the cord.
    When the snake would awake he would make three jumps, and, if the person who had the string succeeded in getting up on the house before the snake would make the third jump, then the snake would die and the person would have the gold.
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  2. A Dream of Gold

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    About 100 years ago a man named Patrick Burns who lived at Rinroe, beside Grange, in the parish of Ahamlish, in Co. Sligo, dreamt that a riddle filled with gold was hidden under a heap of stones on his farm and that it was guarded by a snake and a piper.
    He also dreamt that if he and
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patricia Gilroy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Streedagh, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Mr James Gilroy
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 50
    Address
    Streedagh, Co. Sligo