School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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- There were once a woman and her son living together in a cottage. One day the woman sent her son to town to get a piece of frieze. The boy went and when he was coming home it was raining. He left the frieze on top of the stones to keep them dry. He then went home to his mother but his mother sent him back again. He went immediately and he said to the stones "stones stones give me the frieze" but the stones did not give it. He then began digging for it but he found instead a pot of gold. He then went home to his mother and they lived happily ever after.
I heard this story from Annie Brown Fahy Westport.
- Collector
- Josie Keville
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knappagh Beg, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Annie Brown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fahy Beg, Co. Mayo
