School: Cill a' Lachtáin
- Location:
- Killallaghtan, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó hAllmhuráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0028, Page 0139
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- (continued from previous page)to the place he was hunted because he didn't take the man he was told.
- This story was told to me by a woman aged seventy two, name Mrs Colman Lurgan, Aughrim, Ballinasloe. It concerned a crock of gold that was said to be hidden on the side of an old road down in Urrachre e below Aughim.It was said that nobody could pass that road after dark. One night a rag-man passed the road and one of the Goode's who lived on that road ran out and told him to go back or he would be turned back. The rag-man said "every road is the rag-man's road" so he kept on his way. Soon a soldier dressed in red leaped out of the ditch and said "what brings you this way." The rag-man said "I am going about my business but what brings you here." Then the soldier said "I am minding a crock of gold the last hundred years and if you like I will give it to you to mind it". "Where are you going to then" said the rag-man. "I am going to Heaven" he said(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maudie Fahey
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Colman
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Lurgan Great, Co. Galway
