School: Ármhach (B.)
- Location:
- Arvagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Mac Samhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0983, Page 372
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- In the townland of Farngariff beside Arva lives Owen Burns (66) who told the following story to Seamus ODonnell.
When Burns was a young man there was a mound on his uncle's farm in the same townland. Every evening when he came home from school Owen & his brother were sent out to level portion of the mound The following morning they used to find a number of pooka's little pipes near it The local belief was that fairies came there at night to keep guard over the mound under which a giant and his treasure were buried. Afterwards the mound was levelled, and bones found it it but no treasure.
- Collector
- Seamus O Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Owen Burns
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Farrangarve, Co. Cavan
