School: Cappamore (B.) (roll number 7480)
- Location:
- Cappamore, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: James McCarthy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0520, Page 104
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- (continued from previous page)On that night a horseman was guarding the entrance to the pit to keep out the diggers.
The next day they started to dig again, but after a while they saw a little red man in the pit, and he went in a little door that was his own size.
A week after that, a man went there digging, and a man came out and in ten minutes his beard was tipping the ground. He asked the other man what brought him there and the latter replied, "Where is the gold?" The old man said "In the ground."
- One night aout fifty years ago Thomas Moore Turagh, Cappamore, Co. Limerick, had a dream that there was a pot of gold hid in the corner of his field. Thomas Moore, Ned Wade and John(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Merrick
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Turagh, Co. Limerick
