School: Creach na mBearna
- Location:
- Greaghnafarna, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Breathnach
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mile apart were completely covered over with a network of thread made like a spiders web with the long ends tied to strong weeds and plants growing in the field near the bush. Those threads were quite strong. A man now dead told me that he used some of the thread for sewing in buttons and also for putting splines in a field of early potatoes for keeping away crows.
I did no see this remarkable thing but I remember it as a nine days wonder when every one was talking about it.
It is said that a pot of gold lies hidden at the foot of one of those forts. This treasure is watched by a greyhound. The story says that this treasure if unearthed at all must be done so while the people of the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Leo Layden
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrinisky, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Christie
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Arigna, Co. Roscommon
