School: Loughine, An Sciobairín (roll number 12319)
- Location:
- Pookeen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: David Ó Caoimh
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- (continued from previous page)I dreamed there was gold hidden under an Elder tree, outside a farmhouse in Skeaghanore, and I put some landmark on the place which I can't remember rightly.
The old man went off quite satisfied as the place mentioned happened to be near his own home. He dug away under the Elder tree and he found the gold in an old iron pot with printing on the cover which anyone couldn't read as few people in those days could read.
He got a poor scholar to read it for him. Translated it meant, "Where ever that was there was another like it" So he dug at the place again and he found another pot, and the man and all his descendants were wealthy ever after, and since then the place(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Siobhan Ní Donnachadha
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lahernathee, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Pádraig Ó Coinealaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyoughtera, Co. Cork
