School: Dalystown (roll number 15307)
- Location:
- Dalystown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Kathleen Grehan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0731, Page 113
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“There was a man named Michael Ronan who lived in Derry Castleost Rochfortbridge...”
(continued from previous page)into his room and give him a slap and told him to get up and go home to Ireland and he would find under a sally bush on the bank of the Brosna river a crock of gold.
He came home later on and he and his nephew went to the spot and saw the sally bush but did not dig.
There is a tradition that if you tell any one about treasure dreamt of you will not get it and on this account the young man did not dig and the old man was afraid any misfortune would happen to him if he went to dig for it.
- A Funny Story that happened in this district.
An old man - partly simple - went into Fr Robins house in Rochfortbridge. He got his dinner(continues on next page) - Informant
- Joseph Creevy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dalystown, Co. Westmeath
