School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
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- (continued from previous page)their legs were hanging out.
- Long ago it was said that the country was full of gold hidden by the Danes. One day they were passing from Berrybrian on by Lough Graney with three crocks of gold. They were attacked at the mouth of the lake and sooner than give the gold to the people they threw it in to the lake.
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Chorra
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Woods
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
- A engineer was one day walking along Acres rocks and he said it was all gold and silver
