School: Doohamlet

Location:
Doohamlat, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
P. Mac an Bháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0936, Page 220

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    he came upon a crock of gold. He took the gold home and hid it in a field, at the back of the house.
    One night he dreamed that the gold had turned into dust.
    Next morning when he went to look at the gold he found dust in the crock instead of gold.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. Once upon a time there was a man, who was very poor. One night a fairy came to his house to get in, and he said that he would get him a crock of gold. He let him in and the next morning the fairy took the man to a big hill called "the Broom hill".
    He showed him a rag-weed
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mick Geoghegan
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    James Geoghegan
    Gender
    Male