School: Baile Ard
- Location:
- Ballard, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Floinn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0627, Page 035
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Baile Ard
- XML Page 035
- XML “A Pot of Gold in Hide”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)another blow and another and his name was called after each blow he struck.
The big iron door flung open and the tailor stepped in with the expectation of getting the gold just inside the door. But no, he had to pass on to the far end of the room. Inside the cave the tailor saw a soldier, a dog, and a cat. The soldier was armed, the dog was tied to the wall and the cat was loose.
The tailor stood still with the excitment at the door. The soldier cut the cords which bound the dog to the wall. When the dog got free he immediately sprang towards the cat and before long killed him. The tailor then made his way to the table. The dog sprang towards him and would undoubtedly have killed him like the cat when the soldier(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Liz Blake
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killard, Co. Clare
- Informant
- John Mc Inerney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killard, Co. Clare
