School: Clochar na Trócaire, Inis (roll number 7315)
- Location:
- Ennis, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máire Ní Dhomhnalláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0610, Page 111
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- (continued from previous page)The above story was told to my mother by her father Patrick Riedy who died Christmas 1937 aged 78 years.
- About a hundred years ago a man lived in Inagh which is about 9 miles above Ennis on the Lahinch road. One night he dreamed that there was gold hidden under Thomand Bridge in Limerick. The next morning he walked there and remained on the Bridge all day walking up and down to see if he could see any sign of the gold but he saw none. He stayed there till night came and was about to go home when a small man walked up to him and asked him what he was doing on the bridge all day. He said that he dreamed there was gold hidden there and the small man told him to go home and look under the stone on top of Carron Hill because he had dreamed that there was gold there. Carron Hill is about two miles from Ennis and is to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary O' Riordan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Abbey Street, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Cahir
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 70
- Occupation
- Shopkeeper
- Address
- Parnell Street, Co. Clare
