School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1001, Page 118
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- (continued from previous page)When she would go back in the morning the milk would be gone and she said it was the fairies who drank it.
- It is said that a man in Munter-Connaught dreamed that there was a crock of gold in this fort. He told another man about it, but he only laughed at him. He dreamt it for three nights after other, and then the other man agreed to go with him, so they got a bottle of whiskey, and drank it. When they got to the fort, they began to dig it up. Then after a while they heard a noise like a bull roaring, so they ran away. The after a few days a man told them that a life must be lost before the gold would be got from the fort.
- Collector
- Myles Duffy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Jack Duffy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Another story about the foregoing fort is:- There was a man and he(continues on next page)
