School: Gortaveha (roll number 16488)
- Location:
- Gortaveha, Co. Clare
- Teacher: P. Wiley
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0592E, Page 02_013
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: Gortaveha
- XML Page 02_013
- XML “The Danes”
- XML “Gold”
- XML “Gold”
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)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.
- A engineer was one day walking along Acres rocks and he said it was all gold and silver
- Collector
- Cáit Ní Chorra
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Woods
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Derryfadda, Co. Clare
