School: Coill Chogaidh
- Location:
- Kilcogy, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Mhuiris
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0987, Page 025
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“It was hallow eve night, the stars were shining brightly...”
It was hallow eve night, the stars were shining brightly and the earth was covered with a white frost.
There was a little girl who was living with her grandmother. This night the little girl went out for a walk through the fields. As she was passing a fort she heard a strange noise in the bushes. She went over and she saw a little man dressed in red sitting under the bushes.
She took him up in her hands and shook him and asked him to give her some money. And he told her to look under a rock where she would get a pot of gold.
Then she went home and fetched a large pail to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Ghabhna
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Éamonn Mach Ghabhna
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Freeduff, Co. Cavan