School: Dromin, Dunleer (roll number 6576)

Location:
Dromin, Co. Louth
Teacher:
S. Ó Cathaláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0669, Page 027

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0669, Page 027

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  1. Once upon a time two men were coming home from Roestown across the fields. They knew the fields very well. When they came to the middle field they could not find the gate and they kept walking round and round for four hours. At last their father came to look for them after an hour or so they got home.
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  2. Once upon a time there were a lot of men, and this night when they were all asleep, all the men had the dream that there was a crock of gold buried behind the bush, and the next morning they all went to the bush and they began to dig, and at 12 o'clock they all went home for their
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
          1. treasure legends (~7,411)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Halpenny
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rathescar North, Co. Louth