School: Rathnure (C.) (roll number 12480)
- Location:
- Rathnure Upper, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Cáit Ní Bholguidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0900, Page 237
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- (continued from previous page)reels, hornpipes, four-hand reel, doubles, jigs, etc. In this way many a Sunday and Holiday passed by. The boys also had hurling, football, handball. skittles, and bowling.There were some "raths" adjacent to Gurrawn. One man named John Howlett dreamt of a crock of gold being hidden in one of the raths, three nights in succession. He consulted with some of the other men in the townland as to what he should do. Andy Whelan, the local smith prepared to go with John on a certain night. He got 100 yds of woollen thread to put around the spot where the money was supposed to be hidden.
Some of the boys became aware of John's dream, and they consulted together that they would go to this rath and bury a pot full of rubbish just where John dreamt that the money was.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Blanche
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Garraun Upper, Co. Wexford
