School: Ballinard (B.), Cnoc Luinge
- Location:
- Ballinard, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0517, Page 079
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- In a ditch between John McNamara's field and David Barry's farm in Clogherviller it is said that a piper is heard playing pipes under a white thorn bush. He plays there at or between eleven and twelve o'clock at night. Several people heard the music but they were not aware who it was until old people told then that this music has been heard there by generations of people long since dead.
- Long ago there was a man living in Kilcullane. There was a woman living in the next house to him. One night he dreamt of a crock of gold that was hidden under an oak tree at the back of the house. The man that was living next door told her that if she dreamt of it for another night he would dig for it. She deamt of it the second night and she told him about it and he went next night and dug for it. He went down six feet and he got a crock of "biarógs". When he was passing the woman's window he said "There you are now with your "crock of biarógs", they will keep company with you for the rest of the night and the threw them in the window. The morning after(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Dan Riordan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyloundash, Co. Limerick
