School: Tobar na Brón, Piltown (roll number 1468)
- Location:
- Tobernabrone, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bríd Paor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0842, Page 056
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- There was a man lived in Kill, County Waterford named Tomás Síobhra.
In Dunhill there were supposed to be gold buried under a hawthorn.
Well, six men went in the night to dig for the gold.
They were digging when they heard chains rattling and a roaring bull. They ran with their lives and left all there.
They tried it the second time and the third time they were going to dig for it they asked Tomás Síobra to help them.
He told them he would.
They appointed a night to meet and he told them he would be there, and when the tóidh came on them to call on the Duine Uasail fróm Beall ánn aththingh.
They we digging for some time when the rattling chains came on and the roaring bull.
One of the men got such a fright that he shouted out, "Tanamh ón Díal cá bpúilímisth(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Stasia Knox (Lynch)
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kill, Co. Waterford
