School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0462, Page 137
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- A story about a pot of gold.There was a man living in Derrycunra long ago. He dreamt three nights after eachother that if he went to a crossroads near a bridge outside Limerick he would find a pot of gold near the bridge. He started walking to go to Limerick. It took him about four or five days. He arrived outside the city and he knew by the directions of the dream that he was in the right place when he came to a big crossroads with a river running past there and a bridge over it. He was searching around the bridge all day to see would he find the pot of gold and when night came he went into(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Shea
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Patrick Shea
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
