School: Kiltale (roll number 3239)
- Location:
- Kiltale, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Cronghaile
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- (continued from previous page)earth and tracks at the butt of the bush. She frantically tore out the loose clay but the gold was gone. She realised then her foolishness in telling the people her dream and going back she accused them of cheating her and of course they denied knowing anything about it. So she had to return home again a very sorrowful and disappointed old woman. A curious fact about this bush is that it is always in full blossom a month earlier than any other bush. It never grows any bigger but is always the same size year after year and there is no one who knows it would cut or harm it in any way as it is believed that bad luck would follow, and that is the story of the Money Bush.
told to me by my father
- Informant
- Patrick Regan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 39
- Occupation
- Farm-labourer
- Address
- Milltown, Co. Meath
