School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Síle Ní Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0291, Page 283
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- A man and his sister once lived in a little hut in the town-land of Rathravane. They were very rich and stored their gold in a kettle, but one day as they were preparing dinner, a robber named "Gréithre" came in and demanded the pot of gold. They refused to part with it, but the robber produced a gun and immediately the gold was given up. He ordered them not to follow him, and he went out with a spade and the gold, and buried it a little distance from the hut.
He told them that he would shoot them if they dared followed him, so he was not watched.
Nobody has yet found the gold, and it cannot be very far from Mr. P. Barry's house. "Gréithre" was back to the hut in half-an-hour in search of more gold, and it is said the the gold is buried in a near-by hill.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Coughlan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr T. Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
