School: Carrickerry (B.) (roll number 11280)
- Location:
- Carrigkerry, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Seán Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0487, Page 376
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- A few years ago a man living a couple of miles from here dreamt one night that gold was hidden in a certain place on our farm when there was a furze bush with ivy growing on it. This is the only furze bush in the neighbourhood with ivy growing on it.
The place is a dreary lonesome spot with a stream flowing near it. One night this man with three of his companions came to dig for the gold. They started digging but after a little the light they had with them went out. They lighted it again and dug on.
Then suddenly out of the hole they had made came a bull and the glen became filled with people. The diggers then ran away terrified. The man who had the dream died about a year later. This bush with the ivy growing on it is still there and nobody has since returned to dig for the treasure.
- Collector
- Seamus Daltúin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrigkerry, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Michael Dalton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Carrigkerry, Co. Limerick
