School: Ballinacarrow (roll number 13277)
- Location:
- Ballynacarrow, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Duibheannaigh
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- (continued from previous page)there are letters written on it and I am able to read them".
The man told him and the "poor scholar" read the letters and said,"You'll be a rich man yet". "According to the words on the pot the other side of the bush is just as good as the side you have just dug". When the man heard these words he took his spade and dug the other side of the bush and got the second pot of gold. The man vowed that he would keep the "poor scholar" all his life.
- Collector
- Dorothy Hall
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Templehouse, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Owen Ford
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 86
