School: Baile Ard
- Location:
- Ballard, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0627, Page 034
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- (continued from previous page)shall strick three blows on the anvil with the sledge shall possess a big pot of gold which is laid on a table inside the door."
They all read it and when they had it read the man who dreamt of the gold said he would try first. He struck one blow and his name and surname was called by a voice inside in the cave and he was told to stop. He was frightened so much so that he fell in a weakness to the ground. The same thing happened the other three men and at last it came to the tailors time. He struck one blow and his name and surname was called and he too was told to stop like the others, but, it did not knock a shake out of him. He stood stiff and strong against anything that might happen. He struck(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Liz Blake
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killard, Co. Clare
- Informant
- John Mc Inerney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killard, Co. Clare
