School: Gort na mBó (roll number 14418)
- Location:
- An Gort Crom, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Laoghaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 175
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- (continued from previous page)a spade and shovel and began to dig. After a while he turned up a box.
He opened the box in which there was a hammer, an awl, a last and nails but no gold. The was also a little bit of paper telling him to start "cobbling" shoes. The man started cobbling and after a few years he was as rich as the Leipreachán himself.
A Leipreachán has a box of gold hid in a ditch or under a tree. They don't like to give their gold to anyone.
- There was once a man living in Bonniconlon whose name was O'Dowd. One fine day he went down(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Flannelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Gort Crom, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Informant
- Mrs Bridget Flannelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Gort Crom, Co. Mhaigh Eo
