School: Garrdha na Cailce (Garnakilla) (roll number 15418)
- Location:
- Garranakilka, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0543, Page 005
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- Many years ago when the first people came to Ireland, they came up Gurteenabarna with a cart of gold. The people who were after the horses drove in at Gurteenabarna bridge and went up the river as far as Mick Cummins. They made a big hole in the ground. The heeled up the cart and all the gold went into the hole. They covered up the with clay and stones.
There is a bank there to this day. About one hundred years ago people looked for the gold and when they were near it a black hen appeared to them. The men ran away as fast as they could. People say that it was the Danes that brought the gold there and that they left a black hen minding it.
- Informant
- Pat Shanahan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Cappanavilla, Co. Tipperary
