School: An Ghráinseach, Cluain Meala (roll number 7982)
- Location:
- Grange, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Maolchathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0571, Page 013
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- (continued from previous page)potatoes and one day a poor scholar walked in and sat down by the fire. There was printing on the side of the pot but no one could read it. The poor scholar was looking at the pot over the fire. "Be gor " says he, that's a very quare thing that's written on the pot". "What does it mean", says the man of the house. "What's on it is", says the poor scholar, " the other side of the tree is as good as this side" The man didn't say a word but when it was night he went out and dug at the other side of the tree and didn't he find another pot of gold the same as the first one.
- Informant
- William Carrigan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Grange, Co. Tipperary
