School: Cill Mhuire (roll number 8139)
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ruairc
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0244, Page 299
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Cill Mhuire
- XML Page 299
- XML “A Pisrogue”
- XML “A Hidden Treasure”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Pisrogues are very common in Ireland and were also common long ago.
When there is a churning going on in a house everyone who come in has to take a turn of the churning. If anybody comes in and takes a coal with him to light his pipe he will have to quench it again before he goes out because the people of the house believe he would bring the butter out of the churn with him.
- About nine miles from Kilmurry school in a village called Tibohine there is a hidden treasure. It is a bag of money. During the black and - Tan war.
One day a dog was scraping under a tree and he scraped up a bag of money. It was in a field belonging to a man named Mr. Hanley. This man got the money and he opened the bag. It was filled with five pound notes but they were no good because they were rotten. - Informant
- James Raftery
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tibohine, Co. Roscommon
