School: Scoil na mBráthar, Caiseal (roll number 16726)
- Location:
- Cashel, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An Br. B. E. Ó hOireabháird
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0555, Page 226
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Long ago there was a man digging for gold in a fort in our land. The fort is situated on the main road from Cashel to Thurles and about two and a half miles from Cashel. Every evening when the man used by finished digging he used to go into Cashel for his nights lodgings. One evening when he was walkign into Cashel a man by the name of Mr. Price met him on the road and he gave him a lift. Mr Price asked him where he was from. The man told him his story He said that he came from the County Meath and that he dreamt three nights in succession that he'd get gold in some place in Tipperary and he often heard that if you dreamt three nights in succession for gold that you'd get it. "Oh! you poor old fool" said Mr Price, "You'll get no gold here" and he gave him ten shillings to buy something for himself(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martin Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlemoyle North, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr James Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlemoyle North, Co. Tipperary
