School: Baile 'n Tóchair (roll number 2013)
- Location:
- Baile an Tóchair, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Conn Ó Ruairc
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0178, Page 363
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- A Treasure
About a quarter of a mile from the little town of Ballintogher there lived a strong healthy man who was very greedy for money.
He had a dream three nights in succession that there was a treasure containing three pots of gold in his neighbour's garden/
On the fourth night he went into his neighbour's garden to dig for it, and he kept on digging until day-break but failed to find anything. He dug again the next night but found nothing, and on the third night when he had only one sod dug he took a terrible pain in his right hand and side and he had to stop digging and go home and go to bed, and it is believed that he died within a few days from the effects of it.
- Collector
- Séamus Mac Giolla Mhártain
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cartún Aodha, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- Pádraig Mac Giolla Mhártain
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cartún Aodha, Co. Shligigh
