School: Cill Choinnigh (roll number 13563)
- Location:
- Kilkenny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Giolla Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1053, Page 275
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- My grandmother says that there is a crock of gold hidden near my home in a place called the Griánan.
It is said that one day an old man named Fergal Gallagher to whom the Grianan belonged was digging near it. He found a quern and when he removed the clay from the top of it he found a drinking glass sitting on this quern.
He went on digging and tried to remove the glass. But came a big black cat which frightened him much that he ran home for help. He returned with the help, but when they went to the Griánan they could not find a trace of the quern or the cat.
The Danes were supposed to have hidden the crock, but others say that it was hidden by rich Irishmen(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Mullins
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Boyce
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Mulnamin Beg, Co. Donegal
