School: Ballinacree (B.) (roll number 13965)

Location:
Ballynacree, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Pádraic Ó Connachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0717, Page 129

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  1. About ten perch from my home there is a fort known as Skelly's Ring in the townland of Hilltown. Many years ago people coming from their ceilidhes used to see lights, and hear music inside the fort. It is said by the old people that there is a Crock o' Gold hidden in this fort. About seventy years ago a man from below Ballyduff dreamt of a Crock o' Gold in this fort for three nights in succession. Then he came up and went up to Lynch's where Mr. Gammel now lives and told his errand. He wanted a basket of boiled potatoes as there is a cat and as sow minding the Gold and you have to shoot the cat with a crocket sixpence and let the sow be eating the potatoes while you get your Gold. Anyway Mr. Lynch would not let him go to find it, as the first person who tries to find it his life shall be lost but the second shall succeed. The fairies were last seen there about ninty years ago
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tomás Mac Síomóin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    12
    Address
    Hilltown, Co. Westmeath
    Informant
    Joseph Fitzsimons
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    45
    Address
    Hilltown, Co. Westmeath