School: Na Mullaigh (Smithboro') (roll number 10104)
- Location:
- Smithborough, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Mrs Walsh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0951, Page 309
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- When St Patk banished serpents out of Ireland a great chest of gold put down into the bottom of Drumsnatt Lake. There is a serpent coiled round it and it is supposed to stay there until the day of judgment.
OLD DRUMSNATT GRAVEYARD:the R.C. did not know where to bury their dead - prayed for sign from V. Mary and snow fell that night in middle of Summer.
If you see a fairy - never take your eye of it - was a cobbler mending Shoes - kept his eye on it to make it tell where there wd be a crock of gold and at midnight there came an awful knock and a voice -
"Have you my brogues mended?
and the fairy disappeared and he lost his gold(continues on next page)
