School: Loughduff (B.)
- Location:
- Loughduff, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Ó Heidhin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0988, Page 034
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- One morning a man went to a field to see would he catch a fairy so that he could get a pot of gold from him. He caught him three mornings and asked him for the pot of gold. The fairy told him it would be under a thistle with a red ribbon on it in that field the next morning. When the man went out the next morning every thistle in the field had a red ribbon.
That meant that he should labour the field and sell the crop and get the worth of the gold for it.
Another time a poor shoemaker who wanted to be rich went out and caught a fairy and asked him for a pot of gold(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derries, Co. Cavan
