School: Cill an Daingin
- Location:
- Killadangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Domhnaill
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- (continued from previous page)them and kill them. The ran as quickly as they could. When the reached their houses, they cried and roared out that the old miser was still guarding the gold. Often afterwards they regretted that they did not stand their ground. They said that they might be able to get the gold from the old miser. It was really an old witch, probably the miser's wife.
Another night, two men were looking at their sheep. They were passing down the tree, when they saw an animal sitting at the foot of the tree. He had twelve legs and four noses. One of those men, saw, as he thought, the pot of gold. He reached for it, but the animal bit off his hand.
When the other man saw this he took his companion by the hand, and he brought him home. Although they are now old and feeble they still talk of the adventure they had that night, and they(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Maisie Cleary
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killadangan, Co. Tipperary
