School: Caisleán an Droma, Caisleán na Mainge
- Location:
- Castledrum, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Caomháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0432, Page 311
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- (continued from previous page)bridge all day but could not find the parcel containing the gold. As he was about to go home he got into conversation with a man who was working in an adjacent field. Dan told the stranger his troubles and he replied thus "you foolish man go home I dreamt forty times that if i went to a fort in Gurthanedin and dug under a black thorn tree I would be rich for ever". Dan went home and dug under the tree which was near his own home and found the hidden treasure. He was a happy and rich man ever after.
- About seventy five years ago a faction of men from Kiltallagh raided Keel, the parish in which this school is situated, to take some cattle. The Keel men met them with clubs and stones a short distance east of this school and slaughtered every one of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Sheehan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Informant
- John Boyle
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Castlemaine, Co. Kerry
