School: Forgney, Ballymahon (roll number 860)
- Location:
- Forgney, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Mrs B. Higgins
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 475
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“A magic cat guards a pot of gold buried under a rock on the hill of Clonkeen...”
A magic cat guards a pot of gold buried under a rock on the hill of Clonkeen, on my father's land at Ballymacallen, Moyvore.
The cat is a black one. If anyone could strike the cat with three things - a silk handkerchief, a key, and a ring he would get the gold.
A person who would be anxious to meet the cat would have to go to the hill late at night and call him out. The cat would come out but it is believed that no one could get the better of him, and that he would kill the person that would call him.
A man named Pat Condry tried one night to defeat the cat. But it was never known what happened except that he was got unconscious on the side of the hill next morning.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Finn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymacallen, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- P. Finn
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ballymacallen, Co. Westmeath