Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 1)

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   “A person should always be taught to come out of the right side of the shed…”

   

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   It was not known that this ould gipsy woman had anywan belonging to her at all but the workmen didn't wait to find out. They made a hole for her inside the ditch and laid her in it, and covered her up, and there was never another word about her.
   Nothing ever happened the poor ould woman whom she had told would be in want of a grain of tea before she died.

   

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2. Buried Gold

   

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   There is gold buried in a place down near Scurlogue in Duncormick and there is a hen and chickens minding it. There were a crowd of fellas went wan night to dig for it and they dug away for some time and a hen came and started to scratch back the clay again on 'em. The lads digging for the money didn't know anything at all about the hen minding it and wan of them gave her a kick and told her to go to

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   Date

   15 December 1937

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Gaelic script

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   • Caoimhghin de Róiste