School: Mullach Ruadh (roll number 10654)
- Location:
- Mullaghroe, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Nia
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- (continued from previous page)that he dreamt three nights in succession that he would get his fortune on the bridge. The shoemaker laughed at him and told Thomas that he dreamt three nights in succession that there was a treasure of gold hidden under a white thorn bush at Killaraght Cemetry but that he never went to look for it.
When Thomas went home he got a spade and went to the bush and started to dig. At last he found a pot and when he removed the lid it was full of gold. There was an inscription on the pot which no one could understand. Thomas's wife used the pot for boiling potatoes afterwards.
One day they were eating their dinner and a beggar came to the door and they gave him some dinner. While he was eating he saw the pot at the fire and he told Thomas that wherever he got the pot that there was another(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Imelda O Grady
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mullaghroe, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Matthew Queenan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cuilprughlish, Co. Sligo
