School: Baile an Mhuilinn, An Droichead Nua (roll number 16654)

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   picking berries until it fell dark on them, and they were unable to return home, so they lay down on a mossy spot in the bog, and fell fast asleep. Strange to say, the two men had the same dream; they dreamt that they were sleeping on a cauldron of gold. When they awoke they told their dreams to each other, and they were much excited, and went to get spades to dig for it. So they kept digging for a long time, and many people came to look at them, but they made no one the wiser of what they were doing. The men were now three days digging and no treasure had come to light. On the fourth day, they were only one hour digging when they stripped an enormous big cauldron of gold with a golden lid on it. After a lot of difficulty they succeeded in getting it to the top of the pit they had made. When they got it to the top they took the lid from it; they saw that inside the cauldron there was a solid rock of gold, and on the top of the gold there were jewels of all kinds. They took the jewels from the cauldron and out them into their pockets and carried the cauldron. Just as they were passing a bog-hole the

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
         1. folk belief (~2,535)
            1. treasure legends (~7,411)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nell Maguire

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Hawkfield, Co. Kildare

   Informant

   Mr John Byrne

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   74

   Address

   Hawkfield, Co. Kildare