School: Coill Chláir (roll number 14276)
- Location:
- Coill an Chláir, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Treasa Ní Oibeacáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0211, Page 139
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- A family called O'Rourkes lived in Mong in the parish of Kiltoghert. During the famine they were in good circumstances. Each night they left a lighted candle, an oaten cake and a cup of milk under a lone bush in their farm, as food for any hungry passer-by. After some time the O'Rourkes got a present of a pot of gold for their kindness.
Before they died they buried the gold in their own farm. They said that anyone who wanted money must dig for it whilst Mass was being said in Gowel Church. One day a crowd of men set to work. One man had just struck the pot with his spade, when two savage-looking dogs jumped out. The men fainted and died. Two other men under-took the task but met with the same gate. Nobody ever under-took the job since. The pot of gold is said to be in that farm yet.
- Collector
- Kit Mulvey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Garbhach, Co. Liatroma
- Informant
- Mrs Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 73
- Address
- An tSí Bheag, Co. Liatroma
