School: Baile na Manach (roll number 11488)
- Location:
- Monkstown, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Labhrás Mac Suibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0390, Page 232
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- This story happened about a century ago in a farm in Bally Fou Loo. An old women who lived there at that time went picking sticks or furze as was her custom to boil the skilit.When she came to the corner of the field where a big hawthorn bush was growing or as they called it that time a scarteen. Her eyes stood in her head with fright for almost on every thorn there was paper as she thought stuck. On drawing closer she discovered it was paper money, she was afraid to touch it because she said it surely belonged to the fairies. She ran home in haste. She told the neighbours about it, and of course the news spread like wild fire. It eventually came to the ears of the farmer who owned the land. He of course went to the spot and claimed it as his, because it was found on his land. How the money got there is a mystery, but the old people say that the money was blown into the bush by a She-gee.
- Collector
- Sean Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Occupation
- Schoolboy
- Address
- Monkstown, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Doyle
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyfouloo, Co. Cork
